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The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire Scoring Instructions

The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire assesses 9 dimensions of illness perceptions through individual items: consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, coherence, and emotional representation. Item 6 assesses illness concern by combining emotional and cognitive representations. Item 9 is for causal attributions that can be grouped into categories. An overall illness perception score can be computed by reverse scoring some items and adding all items, with a higher score indicating a more threatening view of the illness.

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The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire Scoring Instructions

The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire assesses 9 dimensions of illness perceptions through individual items: consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, coherence, and emotional representation. Item 6 assesses illness concern by combining emotional and cognitive representations. Item 9 is for causal attributions that can be grouped into categories. An overall illness perception score can be computed by reverse scoring some items and adding all items, with a higher score indicating a more threatening view of the illness.

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The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire Scoring Instructions

Each item of the Brief IPQ assesses one dimension of illness perceptions:

The consequences score is simply the response to item 1.


The timeline score is the response to item 2
The personal control scores is the response to item 3
The treatment control score is the response to item 4
The identity score is the response to item 5
The coherence score is the response to item 7
The emotional representation is the response to item 8.
Illness concern is measured by item 6. This reflects a combination of emotional and
cognitive representations.

Item 9 is the causal item. Reponses can be grouped into categories such as stress,
lifestyle, hereditary, etc. determined by the particular illness studied. Categorical
analysis can then be performed, either on just the top listed cause or all three listed
causes.

In some circumstances it may be possible to compute an overall score which


represents the degree to which the illness is perceived as threatening or benign. The
internal consistency of this score will depend on the illness studied and it is
recommended this is checked. To compute the score, reverse score items 3, 4, and 7
and add these to items 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. A higher score reflects a more threatening
view of the illness.

E. Broadbent

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