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Brief symptom inventory 18 (BSI)

XH Xieyining Huang
KF Kensie M. Funsch
EP Esther C. Park
PC Paul Conway
JF Joseph C. Franklin
JR Jessica D. Ribeiro
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The BSI is a self-report rating questionnaire with 18 items designed to assess for psychological symptoms46. Participants were instructed to rate how much they had been distressed by each symptom (e.g., faintness or dizziness, feeling lonely) since their participation in the initial study in 2017 on a scale of 1 (not at all) to 5 (extremely). The BSI yields three subscale scores (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatization) as well as a total score. Higher scores indicate more severe symptoms. The BSI has been shown to demonstrate good psychometric properties47. The internal consistency was good (α = 0.95).

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