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Health, quality of life and health psychology

Problem Areas in Diabetes scale.

PAID

What it measures
Diabetes-related emotional distress across 20 problem areas of living with diabetes
Length and format
20 items. 5-pt Likert (0-4); sum x1.25 -> 0-100 (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
15+ languages
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Polonsky WH, Anderson BJ, Lohrer PA, et al. Diabetes Care. 1995;18(6):754-760.

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