Somatic Symptom Scale-8.
SSS-8
- What it measures
- Somatic symptom burden across gastrointestinal, pain, fatigue, and cardiopulmonary domains over the past 7 days
- Length and format
- 8 items. 5-point distress (not at all to very much); total 0-32 with severity bands (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (derived from the PHQ-15)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Gierk, B., et al. (2014). The Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8): a brief measure of somatic symptom burden. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(3), 399-407.
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