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Somatic Symptom Scale 8
Aka: Somatic Symptom Scale 8, SSS-8
- See Also
- Somatic Symptom Disorder
- Patient Health Questionnaire 15 (PHQ-15)
- Indications
- Somatic Symptom Disorder Diagnosis
- Scale: Answers
- Score 0: Not at all
- Score 1: A little bit
- Score 2: Somewhat
- Score 3: Quite a bit
- Score 4: Very much
- 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
- 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
- References
- Gierk (2014) JAMA Intern Med 174(3): 399-407 +PMID:24276929 [PubMed]