Elsewhere the narrator has to wrestle with his criminally inclined father to retrieve a valuable item the latter has stolen from trusting benefactors ("A Silver Dish").
The score ranges from 0 to 3 on each item, the latter indicating higher depression symptom score.
28 Since the development of the original questionnaire in 2000, subsequent versions have seen the number of items reduced from 37 to 28 items, and eventually to eight items, where the latter is known as the short form version (DES-SF; 21).
To gain additional information, the items were also correlated with the SCL items, although the latter has not yet been validated in its Swedish translation.
Clearly, the former may be equally short for all items, but the latter depends on the time demand of individual items.
The 23 item PedsQL instrument measures overall HRQoL along with the four subdomains: physical (eight items), emotional (five items), social (five items), and school (five items) functioning and wellbeing (the 15 item from the latter three also constituting an overall psychosocial domain).
The items of the latter questionnaire were adjusted to focus on recovery from cancer, and item 4 (treatment control) was deleted to achieve an acceptable internal consistency (increase Cronbach's alpha from.61 to.75 after removing item 4).
Because items identified from the literature review overlapped with those identified by Jokovic and colleagues (2003), only the items from the latter were used in the development of the ECOHIS.
