Table 2.

Scoring guideline for the Perceived Stress Scale items

For questions 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, and 10 use the coding below to get the numerical score for each of the responses:
0=Never	1=Almost never	2=Sometimes	3=Fairly often	4=Very often
For questions 4, 5, 7 and 8 use the reverse coding below to get the numerical score for each of your responses:
4=Never	3=Almost never	2=Sometimes	1=Fairly often	0=Very often