Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Table 1

Internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) values for Diabetes Distress Scale-17 items (DDS-17).

DDS-17 items	Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted
1. Feeling the diabetes is taking up too much of my mental and physical energy every day	0.868
2. Feeling that my doctor doesn’t know enough about diabetes and diabetes care	0.877
3. Feeling angry, scared, and/or depressed when I think about living with diabetes	0.861
4. Feeling that my doctor doesn’t give me clear enough directions on how to manage my diabetes	0.874
5. Feeling that I am not testing my blood sugars frequently enough	0.873
6. Feeling that I am often failing with my diabetes routine	0.868
7. Feeling that friends or family are not supportive enough of self-care efforts (e.g., planning activities that conflict with my schedule, encouraging me to eat the “wrong” foods)	0.870
8. Feeling that diabetes controls my life	0.874
9. Feeling that my doctor doesn’t take my concerns seriously enough	0.875
10. Not feeling confident in my day-to-day ability to manage diabetes	0.868
11. Feeling that I will end up with serious long-term complications no matter what I do	0.863
12. Feeling that I am not sticking closely enough to a good meal plan	0.870
13. Feeling that friends or family don’t appreciate how difficult living with diabetes can be	0.871
14. Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of living with diabetes	0.871
15. Feeling that I don’t have a doctor, who I can see regularly enough about my diabetes	0.875
16. Not feeling motivated to keep up my diabetes self-management	0.872
17. Feeling that friends or family don’t give me the emotional support that I would like	0.871