Research Article

12-Item Pruritus Severity Scale: Development and Validation of New Itch Severity Questionnaire

Table 2

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (ρ) for the each item (Q) score and the total score of the 12-PSS.


Q1 and total score1480.76<0.0001
Q2 and total score1480.62<0.0001
Q3 and total score1480.62<0.0001
Q4 and total score1480.49<0.0001
Q5 and total score1480.68<0.0001
Q6 and total score1480.32<0.0001
Q7 and total score1480.20.01
Q8 and total score1480.53<0.0001
Q9 and total score1480.72<0.0001
Q10 and total score1480.8<0.0001
Q11 and total score1480.66<0.0001
Q12 and total score1480.5<0.0001