BIPQ

Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire(English)

  • a 9-item questionnaire that measures illness perceptions across 9 domains. The illness perception domains assessed by the BIPQ are identity: symptoms experienced (1 item); timeline (acute/chronic): perception on length of disease (1 item); consequences: effect of disease on one’s life (1 item); personal control: control over disease (1 item); treatment control: perception of treatment effect (1 item); emotional representations: emotional effect of disease (1 item); illness coherence: understanding of disease (1 item); illness concern: concern about disease (1 item); and cause: perceived cause of disease. The cause item is an open-ended question that asks patients to rank the top 3 factors they believe caused their disease. The other 8 questions are scored on a 0–10 scale
  • DASI, MFI, PGA, PHQ-4, QOL
  • Psychology, Questionnaire, Emotional aspects, Scoring systems/scales
  • https://doi.org…9/jrheum.190828