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. 2020 Aug 6;11:3899. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17369-0

Table 1.

Items measuring physical, mental and social well-being.

Items Response options
Physical well-being

Health problem

Do you have any health problems that prevent you from doing any of the things people your age normally can do?

Yes/no

Physical pain

Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about physical pain?

Yes/no

Well-restedness

Did you feel well-rested yesterday?

Yes/no

Health care

In the city or area where you live, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the availability of quality healthcare?

Satisfied/dissatisfied

Food

Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?

Yes/no

Shelter

Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to provide adequate shelter or housing for you and your family?

Yes/no
Mental well-being

Negative emotions

Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about worry/sadness/stress/anger? (4 separate items)

Yes/no

Positive emotions

Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about enjoyment?

Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?

Yes/no

Life satisfaction

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

0: worst possible

10: best possible

Hope

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. Just your best guess, on which step do you think you will stand in the future, say about five years from now?

0: worst possible

10: best possible

Social well-being

Social support

If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?

Yes/no

Respect

Were you treated with respect all day yesterday?

Yes/no

Freedom

In (this country), are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?

Satisfied/dissatisfied
Exposure status
Do you consider yourself an internally displaced person? Yes/no
Since the start of the conflict in Syria over two years ago, have any of your immediate family members left the area they were living in and moved to (1) Somewhere else within the same governorate/ (2) To another governorate/ (3) Somewhere outside Syria? Yes/no
Has someone from this household (1) lost their life/ (2) been injured as a result of the ongoing violence? Yes/no
Has this household lost their main source of income due to the ongoing violence? Yes/no

Note: Bolded labels indicate different categories of variables, and the italic formatting is used to label each variable.