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Table 1 Rasch model: Item measure, SE, fit statistics and item-total correlations of the social maladjustment domain

From: Use of rasch methodology to develop a short version of the Health Related Quality of life for Eating Disorders questionnaire: a prospective study

  

Social maladjustment

Item a

Content

δ

SE

Infit

Outfit

r t

(1) RB12

Do you fast for a day, although you feel hungry?

1.54

0.07

1.17

0.92

0.58

(2) RB13

Do you skip some meals, although you feel hungry?

0.56

0.05

1.33

1.12

0.69

(3) RB15

Do you avoid eating with others?

0.48

0.05

1.12

1.19

0.61

(10) SOCR56

Do you think that your eating habits negatively affect your personal relationship or the possibility of finding one?

0.23

0.05

1.21

1.16

0.63

(9) SOCR54

To what extent do your concerns about eating negatively affect your family relationship (talking less, discussing more, diminished confidence?)

0.12

0.05

1.03

1.17

0.62

(8) BI28

Do you avoid situations in which others can see your body, for example, in the gym, the pool, or on the beach?

-0.01

0.05

1.26

1.23

0.70

(4) BI24

In general, do you feel fat, despite the fact that other people (family, friends, doctors, etc.) tell you otherwise?

-0.40

0.05

0.83

0.80

0.81

(5) BI25

Do you think that some parts of your body, for example, hips, waist or thighs, are too big or wide compared with the rest of your body?

-0.52

0.05

0.95

0.89

0.78

(6) BI26

Do you worry about your weight?

-0.92

0.05

0.82

0.80

0.79

(7) BI27

Do you worry about possibly gaining weight?

-1.09

0.06

0.77

0.84

0.78

  1. Every question has a response scale of 6 ordinal options, being 0 = Never and 5 = Always.
  2. δ = Level of severity of the social maladjustment factor. Higher values indicate higher severity; SE = standard error;r t = correlation between item and total measured social maladjustment level based on the Rasch calibrated item scores and total scores.
  3. a The numbers in parentheses reflect the current item location in the shortened version.
  4. This English translation has not been validated linguistically. We provide an approximate translation of the Spanish items into English.