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Table 1 Psychosocial variables

From: Adolescent’s subjective perceptions of chronic disease and related psychosocial factors: highlights from an outpatient context study

Name

Psychosocial measure

Abbreviation (in this study)

Short description

KIDSCREEN-10 Index [58]

Health-related quality of life – HRQoL

KIDS-10

• Short version of KIDSCREEN-52;

• Used in the HBSC/WHO Study [43, 52, 53];

• 10 items, on a 5-point Likert-type scale;

• Ranges from 0 to 100;

• Lower values reflect feelings of unhappiness, dissatisfaction and inadequacy. Higher values reveal feelings of happiness, perception of adequacy and satisfaction with the adolescent’s life contexts.

• α = .83

Symptoms Check List (SCL-HBSC) [59]

Psychosomatic health complaints (unidimensional latent trait).

SCL

• Used in the HBSC/WHO Study [43, 52, 53];

• 8 items focusing on subjective physical and psychological health complaints;

• Each item answered on a 5-point Likert-type response scale;

• Resultant values between 1 (worst health) and 5 (best health);

• Ranges from 8 to 40.

• α = .78

Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment Module [60]

Resilience

(2 dimensions: external and internal resources).

RES

• The present study only considered the internal resources dimension;

• 18 items answered on a 4-point scale;

• Ranges from 18 to 72;

• Higher scores indicate higher levels of competences, protection and resilience to adversity.

• α = .0.72

Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory – ASRI [61]

Self-regulation

(2 dimensions: Short term-SR-ST and Long term-SR-LT).

SR

• In this study the instrument was translated from the original English version into Portuguese language. It was then revised by a group of specialized experts within this field and a pre-test with a group of students was conducted in schools.

• 36 items answered on a 5-point Likert scale;

• Ranges from 36 to 180.

• Higher values indicate better competences of self-regulation.

• α = .0.79

Scale of Satisfaction with Social Support [62, 63]

Satisfaction with social support

(2 dimensions: Satisfaction with Social Support-SSS; and Need for Activities connected to Social Support-NASS).

SSSS

• Translation and adaptation for children and adolescents of a Satisfaction with Social Support Scale for adults [63];

• 12 items answered on a 5-point scale;

• Ranges from 18 to 72;

• Higher scores indicate higher satisfaction with social support (SSS) or higher satisfaction for not feeling the need to have more social support activities (NASS).

• α = .85