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Beer, et al (2007) utilised two instruments capturing measures of social capital in their research: the Social Support Questionnaire – Six Item Brief Measure – Revised (SSQ-6-R) and the Relationship Assessment Scale.

Table 1 shows the intervention description according to the TIDieR checklist (Hoffmann et al., 2014): Table 1 Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist Item number Item Brief name  1 Brief intervention for stress management and change in illness perception among hypertensive and normotensive workers: pilot study and protocol.

The single item Brief Distress Thermometer (BDT) will be used to screen for global psychological distress [ 13].

The BDT is free of charge; and easy to administer and interpret; and has comparable accuracy with longer distress screening instruments such as the 14 item Hospital Anxiety and Distress Scale and the 18 item Brief Symptom Inventory [ 14, 15].

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York developed a simple single item Brief Distress Thermometer (BDT) and accompanying Problem Checklist [ 11] that has now been incorporated into clinical practice guidelines for psychosocial care after cancer and relevant consumer materials [ 12, 13].

Main outcome measures Generic, health related quality of life (assessed by physical and mental health component scores of the SF-12, and the EQ-5D), anxiety (assessed by the six item Brief State-Trait Anxiety Inventory), and depressive symptoms (assessed by the 10 item Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale).

The test battery included a self-administered structured questionnaire, the five-item brief symptoms rating scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Chinese Premenstrual Symptom Questionnaire.

Although major depressive disorder (MDD) has a variety of symptoms beyond the affective dimensions, the factor structure and contents of comprehensive psychiatric symptoms of this disorder have rarely been explored using the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS).

This study tested a structural model and examined the relationships between age, suicidal ideation, and scores on the 5-item Brief Symptom Rating Scale (BSRS-5), the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), and the Medical Outcome Study Short Form-12 (MOS SF-12) in a sample of veterans' home residents.

In respect of the latter, for example, emails have to be formulated (e.g., to make formal requests); for short-answer items, brief answers, consisting of numbers or key words, have to be supplied within a given template.

The resultant 15-item "brief" screening instrument, when applied to our dataset, correctly classifies 83.8% of the sample (ranging from 60 to 97% in the six segments; see Table 7).