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

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Correlations between the AR-PAID-5 and the Arabic versions of the PAID, PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5 and HbA1c (N = 260)

Items of the AR-PAID-5	Correlation coefficient (p-value)
Items of the AR-PAID-5	AR-PAID	AR-PHQ-9	AR-GAD-7	AR-WHO-5	HbA1c
Item 3	0.65 ***	0.44 ***	0.34 ***	−0.34 ***	0.20 **
Item 6	0.69 ***	0.41 ***	0.35 ***	−0.31 ***	0.13 *
Item 12	0.82 ***	0.47 ***	0.47 ***	−0.37 ***	0.16 *
Item 16	0.71 ***	0.44 ***	0.31 ***	−0.36 ***	0.09
Item 19	0.71 ***	0.46 ***	0.36 ***	−0.20 ***	0.09
Total AR-PAID-5	0.93 ***	0.56 ***	0.47 ***	−0.38 ***	0.16 **

AR-PAID-5 Arabic version of the 5-item Problem Areas in Diabetes, AR-PAID Arabic version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes, AR-GAD-7 Arabic version of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale 7, HbA1c Glycated hemoglobin, AR-PHQ-9 Arabic version of the Patient Health Questionnaire 9, AR-WHO-5 Arabic version of the 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index
***. Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation is statistically significant at p-value < 0.001; **. Statistically significant at p-value < 0.01; *. Statistically significant at p-value < 0.05

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