II. Indications
- Somatic Symptom Disorder Diagnosis
III. Scale: Answers
- Score 0: Not at all
- Score 1: A little bit
- Score 2: Somewhat
- Score 3: Quite a bit
- Score 4: Very much
IV. Questions: Over the last 7 days, how much have you been bothered by the following (use the answer scale for each symptom)
- Back pain
- Chest Pain or Shortness of Breath
- Dizziness
- Feeling tired or having low energy
- Headaches
- Pain in your arms, legs or joints
- Stomach or bowel problems
- Trouble sleeping
V. Interpretation
- Score 0-3
- No to minimal somatic symptom burden
- Score 4-7
- Low somatic symptom burden
- Score 8-11
- Medium somatic symptom burden
- Score 12-15
- High somatic symptom burden
- Score 16-32
- Very high somatic symptom burden