Table 4.

The scale mean if item deleted, scale variance if item deleted, corrected item-total correlation, squared multiple correlation and Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted for Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17-item among people with epilepsy, Jimma University Medical Center, 2020 (n=133)

Items	Scale mean if item deleted	Scale variance if item deleted	Corrected item-total correlation	Squared multiple correlation	Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted
Depressed mood	5.12	17.425	0.507	0.459	0.716
Feeling of guilty	5.15	17.432	0.506	0.441	0.716
Suicide	5.53	19.191	0.365	0.371	0.733
Insomnia initial	5.44	19.854	0.330	0.305	0.736
Insomnia middle	5.57	19.868	0.347	0.438	0.734
Insomnia terminal	5.68	20.857	0.236	0.241	0.743
Work and activities	5.55	19.310	0.439	0.339	0.726
Psychomotor retardation	5.65	20.154	0.334	0.308	0.736
Agitation	5.77	21.286	0.220	0.305	0.744
Anxiety psychological	5.21	19.470	0.306	0.220	0.739
Somatic anxiety	5.47	19.902	0.258	0.229	0.744
Somatic symptoms (gastrointestinal)	5.60	20.287	0.350	0.333	0.735
Somatic symptoms general	5.79	21.455	0.207	. 206	0.745
Genital symptoms	5.80	21.663	0.122	0.173	0.748
Hypochondriasis	5.59	19.411	0.346	0.327	0.734
Loss of weight	5.53	19.826	0.367	0.355	0.733
Insight	5.77	20.907	0.369	0.340	0.737