Table 1.
| Scale & Characteristics |
|---|
| 1. Rate Quality of Life |
| Question: Overall, how would you rate your quality of life?(0 = worse, 10 = best) |
| Location: WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) |
| Origin: ? |
| 2.Satisfied with Quality of Life |
| Question: How satisfied are you with your current quality of life? (1 = dissatisfied, 10 = satisfied) |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) |
| Origin: ? |
| 3. Role Limitations due to Emotional Problems |
| Question(s): subscale from SF-36, 1-100, with higher scores indicating higher level of emotional health. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) - EMOLIMIT |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 4. Emotional Well-Being |
| Question(s): subscale from SF-36, 1-100, with higher scores indicating higher level of emotional health. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var 196, EMOWELL |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 5. Energy/Fatigue |
| Question(s): subscale of SF-36 , 1-100, with higher scores indicating a more favorable health state. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var #197, ENERFAT |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 6. Hostility Construct |
| Question(s): 13 Qs, with higher scores indicating higher levels of mistrust toward other people. Sum of 13 T/F items resulting in a possible range from 0-13 where a higher score indicates greater hostility. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) Var # 198, HOSTIL |
| Origin: Cook Medley Scale, Cynicism Subscale |
| 7. General Health Construct |
| Question(s): from SF-36, 0-100, with higher scores indicating a more favorable health state. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var #199, GENHLTH |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 8. Life Event Construct #1 (0,1 scoring) |
| Question(s): construct of Y/N to 11 possible major life events (such as losing a spouse), range 0-11, higher score indicating greater number of life events. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var #200, LFEVENT1 |
| Origin: WHI BAC: Alameda County Study and BHAT. |
| 9. Life Event Construct #2 (0,3 scoring) |
| Question(s): sames as above but 0-3 scoring incorporates how much the event affected the individual. Range 0-33, with a higher score indicating a greater number of life events. (takes into account perceived stressfulness of each event). |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var # 201, LFEVENT2 |
| Origin: WHI BAC: Alameda County Study and BHAT. |
| 10. Negative Emotional Expressiveness (NEE) |
| Question(s): 4 questions on expression of negative emotions: summary score 1-5, where a higher score indicates greater expressiveness of negative emotions. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) Var #203-NEGEMOT |
| Origin: King L & Emmons R, 1990 |
| 11. Optimism construct |
| Question(s): LOT-R. 6 components coded 1= strongly disagree to 5= strongly agree. Range 6-30, higher score = greater optimism, and lower score = greater pessimism. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) = Var #204, OPTIMISM |
| Origin: LOT-R. Scheier & Carver, 1994. |
| 12. Pain Construct |
| Question(s): 2 Questions from quality of life, pain subscale from SF-36, Range 0-100, with higher scores indicating favorable health state (less pain). |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) - #205, PAIN |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 13. Role Limitations Due to Physical Health |
| Question(s): 2 Qs from SF-36 quality of life subscale. Range 0-100, with higher scores indicating favorable health state |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var #206-PHYLIMIT |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 14. Physical Functioning Construct |
| Question(s): Subscale on quality of life from SF-36. Range 0-100, with higher scores indicating favorable health state |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life), Var PHYSFUN. |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 15. Sleep Disturbance Construct |
| Question(s): Summary score 4-24 where a higher score indicates greater sleep disturbance. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) 209, SLPDSTRB. |
| Origin: ? |
| 16. Social Functioning |
| Question(s): 2 Q's, quality of life subscale on social functioning. Range 0-100, with higher scores indicating favorable health state |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – SOCFUNC. |
| Origin: SF-36 |
| 17. Social Strain Construct |
| Question(s): Scale measuring negative aspects of social relations. Sum of 4 components coded from 1=non to 5=all. Summary score range 4- 20 where a higher score indicates more social strain. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) – Var #211, SOCSTRN |
| Origin: Antonucci TA, Kahn RC, Akiyama H (1989). |
| 18. Social Support Construct |
| Question(s): Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), sum of components coded from 1= none of the time to 5=all of the time. Summary score range 9-45, where a higher score indicates more social support. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life)- Var #212, SOCSUPP |
| Origin: Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), |
| 19. Symptom Construct |
| Question(s): Average of 34 items measuring occurrence and severity of symptoms. Summary score range 0-3, where a higher score indicates a more favorable health state. |
| WHI: Psychosocial/Behavioral (F38-Daily Life) = Var #213, SYMPTOM |
| Origin: “PEPI, national, and other surveys” |
Depressive symptoms (Not in Table 7, but added into the text)
Shortened CES-D/IDS screening instrument.
PSHTDEP range 0-1, higher score indicating a greater likelihood of depression. Cutoffs of 0.06 and 0.009 have been used to indicate depression (we use 0.06 in the optimism/cynical hostility paper and in the current paper on breast reconstructive surgery).