Table 1.
Comprehensive list of scales measuring patients’ treatment expectations
| Instrument | Treatment specificity | Dimensionality | Number of relevant items |
| Illness Perception Questionnaire, Brief and Revised (IPQ-R/B-IPQ)42 43 | Generic | Multi | 32 |
| Milwaukee Psychotherapy Expectancies Questionnaire (M-PEQ)34 | Generic | Multi | 13 |
| Patient Centered Outcomes Questionnaire (PCOQ)36 | Generic | Multi | 5 |
| Patient Questionnaire on Therapy Expectation and Evaluation (PATHEV)35 | Generic | Multi | 7 |
| Questionnaire for Patients’ Expectations of Healthcare (QPEHC)16 | Generic | Multi | 36 |
| Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ)38 | Generic | Single | 6 |
| Expectations for Activities of Daily Living (ADL-E)44 | Generic | Single | 22 |
| Expected Illness-Related Disability (PDI-E)45 | Generic | Single | 7 |
| General Assessment of Expected Side Effects Scale (GASE-EXPECT)46 | Generic | Single | 36 |
| General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)31 | Generic | Single | 10 |
| Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R)32 | Generic | Single | 6 |
| Physical Functioning Quality of Life Component Score (PCS-E)47 | Generic | Single | 13 |
| Positive Health Expectations Scale (PHES)20 | Generic | Single | 7 |
| Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS)29 | Generic | Single | 9 |
| Treatments Representations Inventory (TRI)48 | Generic | Single | 28 |
| Expectations About Counseling-Brief Form (EACB)49 | Specific | Multi | 66 |
| Expectations of Gynecological Treatment Questionnaire (EGTQ)50 | Specific | Multi | 24 |
| Exercise Outcomes Expectations Questionnaire (EOE-Q)51 | Specific | Multi | 20 |
| Expectations Towards Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy (EXPECT-ICD)52 | Specific | Multi | 10 |
| Orthodontic Treatment Expectations53 | Specific | Multi | 15 |
| Self-Efficacy Expectations and Outcome Expectations after Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation (SE-ICD and OE-IC)54 | Specific | Multi | 17 |
| Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Questionnaire (SAEQ)55 | Specific | Multi | 28 |
| Psychosocial Treatment Expectations Questionnaire (PTEQ)56 | Specific | Multi | 13 |
| Acupuncture Expectancy Scale (AES)57 | Specific | Single | 7 |
| Anaesthesiological Expectations Questionnaire (ANP-E) 58 | Specific | Single | 17 |
| Cardiac Surgery Patient Expectations Questionnaire (C-SPEQ)59 | Specific | Single | 20 |
| Chiropractic Patients’ Expectations60 | Specific | Single | 15 |
| Control Attitudes Scale-Revised (CAS-R)61 | Specific | Single | 3 |
| Expectations for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments Questionnaire (EXPECT)62 | Specific | Single | 13 |
| Expectations Questionnaire (EQ)63 | Specific | Single | 6 |
| Future Expectations Regarding Life with Heart Disease Scale (FERLHDS)64 | Specific | Single | 18 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery Knee Surgery Expectations Survey (KSES)19 | Specific | Single | 23 |
| Knee Self-Efficacy Scale (K-SES)65 | Specific | Single | 22 |
| Musculoskeletal Outcomes Data Evaluation and Management System (MODEMS)66 | Specific | Single | 6 |
| New Knee Society Knee Scoring System (NKSSS)67 | Specific | Single | 8 |
| Patient Shoulder Outcome Expectancies (PSOE)68 | Specific | Single | 3 |
| Sample Patient Questionnaire (SPQ)69 | Specific | Single | 12 |
| Treatment-Specific Optimism (TSO)70 | Specific | Single | 10 |
The format of the table has been adapted from Laferton et al.18
Generic: not directly referring to a specific treatment.
Multi: several expectation dimensions are each assessed by an independent scale.
Single: only one expectation dimension is assessed.
Specific: directly referring to a specific treatment.