Table 4.
List of questionnaires completed by participants in the ABC@UofSC study prior to in-person testing.
| Questionnaire/Survey | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Short-Form Health Survey (RAND-SF 36) (Hays, 1994) | Provides an indication of perceived change in health by measuring physical functioning, bodily pain, role limitations due to physical health problems and personal or emotional problems, emotional well-being, social functioning, energy/fatigue, and general health perceptions. |
| BRFSS 2009 Section 11 Tobacco use (Rolle-Lake and Robbins, 2020) | Collects uniform, state-specific data on preventive health practices and risk behaviors that are linked to chronic diseases, injuries, and preventable infectious diseases that affect the adult population. Factors assessed by the BRFSS include tobacco use. |
| BRFSS 2009 Section 15 Alcohol Consumption (Rolle-Lake and Robbins, 2020) | Assesses levels of binge drinking by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, education level, income level, and disability status at the individual level, as well as geographic disparities in binge drinking at the state level. |
| NHIS Dietary Screener (National Cancer Institute (NCI), 2019) | Assesses the health and nutritional status of adults of children in the U.S. It collects detailed information about food, nutrients, and supplement intake and other dietary information. |
| Food Security Supplement-CPS-FSS (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 2019) | The questions detail food security, food expenditures, and use of food and nutrition assistance programs to determine what is needed for the population. It is a source of statistics on food insecurities. |
| Lifetime Discrimination Subscale of the Perceived (Williams et al., 1997) | Measures how often people feel that others treat them badly or unfairly on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, physical appearance, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. The scale covers discrimination in different areas of life, including at school, at work, and in one’s neighborhood. |
| Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (Buysse et al., 1989) | Measures the quality and patterns of sleep in the older adult. It differentiates “poor” from “good” sleep by measuring seven domains: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction over the last month. |
| Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) (Washburn et al., 1993) | Measures the level of self-reported physical activity in individuals 65 and over. The PASE score combines information on leisure, household and occupational activity. |
| IPAQ Short Form (self-administered) (Craig et al., 2017) | Self-reported intensity of physical activity and sitting time that individuals do as a part of their daily lives. It is considered to estimate total physical activity in MET-min/week and time spent sitting. |
| PROMIS 57 Profile V20 (Cella et al., 2010) | Collection of short forms containing a fixed number of items from seven PROMIS domains (Depression, Anxiety, Physical Function, Pain Interference, Fatigue, Sleep Disturbance, and Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities). They assess all domains over the past seven days except for Physical Function which has no timeframe specified. |
| Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12) (Noble et al., 2013) | Measures a range of hearing disabilities across several domains. Particular attention is given to hearing speech in a variety of competing contexts, and to the directional, distance and movement components of spatial hearing. |
| Adult Reading History Question-Revised (AHRQ) (Lefly and Pennington, 2000) | Self-report screening tool designed to measure risk of reading disability (i.e. dyslexia) in adults. The AHRQ asks adults about their own reading history and current reading habits in order to estimate the risk that they may have a reading disability. |
| Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985) | A 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one’s life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or negative affect). |
| Pearlin Mastery Scale (Pearlin and Schooler, 1978) | Measures the extent to which an individual regards their life chances as being under their personal control rather than fatalistically ruled. |
| Social Relationships Survey (Burt, 1984) | Name generator is used to collect information regarding anyone an individual has had personal contact or communication with over the past 7 and 30 days, excluding professional interactions and their role-relation. The degree of participation in social clubs, organizations, and other types of events is also collected. |
| Collective Efficacy Scale (Sampson et al., 1997) | Two-part scale that measures how well communities work together to make things happen. The informal social control section assesses how likely neighbors are to intervene when there is trouble, and the social cohesion and trust section assesses how likely neighbors are to support each other in times of need. |
| PROMIS SF V20 Emotional Support 8a (Hays et al., 2018) | The PROMIS Emotional Support item bank (currently adults only) assesses perceived feelings of being cared for and valued as a person; having confident relationships. |
| PROMIS SF V20 Instrumental Support (Hays et al., 2018) | Assesses self-reported perceived availability of assistance with material, cognitive or task performance. The instrumental support short forms are universal rather than disease-specific. |
| PROMIS SF V20 Ability to Participate Social Roles and Activities 8a (Hays et al., 2018) | Assesses the perceived ability to perform one’s usual social roles and activities. Items are worded negatively in terms of perceived limitations, but responses are reverse-coded so that higher scores represent fewer limitations (better abilities). |
| PROMIS SF V20 Social Isolation 8a (Hays et al., 2018) | Assesses perceptions of being avoided, excluded, detached, disconnected from, or unknown by, others. The item bank does not use a time frame (e.g. over the past seven days) when assessing social isolation. |
| Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) (Frisch, 1994) | Provides a score that indicates a person’s overall satisfaction with life based on how well their needs, goals, and wishes are being met in important areas of life. |