Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire.
B-IPQ
Cognitive and emotional illness representations distilled to single items: consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, coherence/understanding, concern, emotional response (+ open causal item)
- Length and format
- 9 (8 scored 0-10 + 1 open-ended causal). 0-10 single-item numeric rating scales (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 26+ languages (one of the more widely translated PRO measures)
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Broadbent, E., Petrie, K. J., Main, J., & Weinman, J. (2006). The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60(6), 631-637.
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