Psychometric evaluation of the Arabic version of the 5-item Problem Areas in Diabetes (AR-PAID-5) scale

BMC Primary Care

Table 2 Internal consistency and test-retest reliabilities of the AR-PAID-5

Items of the AR-PAID-5	Mean (SD) (N = 260)	Inter-items correlations (N = 260)					Test-retest reliability (N = 100)
Items of the AR-PAID-5	Mean (SD) (N = 260)	item 3	item 6	item 12	item 16	item 19	ICC	95% CI
Item 3	0.71 (1.29)	1.00	–	–	–	–	0.98	0.97–0.99
Item 6	0.67 (1.21)	0.69 ***	1.00	–	–	–	0.98	0.97–0.99
Item 12	1.85 (1.48)	0.49 ***	0.47 ***	1.00	–	–	0.96	0.94–0.97
Item 16	1.08 (1.26)	0.56 ***	0.58 ***	0.54 ***	1.00	–	0.94	0.91–0.96
Item 19	1.18 (1.40)	0.56 ***	0.52 ***	0.54 ***	0.61 ***	1.00	0.74	0.63–0.82
Total AR-PAID-5	5.49 (5.50)	0.71 ***	0.70 ***	0.85 ***	0.78 ***	0.81 ***	0.74	0.61–0.83
Total AR-PAID-5	5.49 (5.50)	Cronbach α = 0.88

Item 3 = “Feeling scared”; item 6 = “Feeling depressed”; item 12 = “Worrying about future complications”; item 16 = “Feeling that diabetes is taking up too much energy”; item 19 = “Coping with complications”
AR-PAID-5 Arabic version of the 5-item Problem Areas in Diabetes, SD Standard deviation, ICC Intra-class correlation, CI Confidence interval
***. Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation is statistically significant at p-value < 0.001

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