Table 5.

Internal consistency and test-retest reliabilities of the AR-PAID (N = 200).

Items of the AR-PAID (score range)	Number of items	Cronbach α	Test-Retest reliability (n = 50)
			ICC	95% CI
Emotional problems (0–60)	12	0.96	0.93	0.86–0.96
Treatment problems (0–10)	2	0.94	0.97	0.88–0.99
Food problems (0–15)	3	0.79	0.92	0.52–0.97
Lack of support (0–15)	3	0.65	0.96	0.89–0.98
Total AR-PAID (0–100)	20	0.96	0.97	0.94–0.98

AR-PAID, Arabic version of the problem areas in diabetes; SD, Standard deviation; ICC, intra-class correlation; CI, confidence interval.