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The pbat and a brief outcome measure can be downloaded below. The PBAT is an item pool, which means you don’t have to use the whole measure. For example, you can use a subset of items from it and add these to your current battery.

PBAT translations and other resources

Citations for PBAT

Norms for the PBAT

Outcome measures

These were the measures used in Ciarrochi, et al., 2022.
Mental ill-health
We recommend the five STOP-D items to measure sadness, anxiety, stress, anger, and lack of social support

Young, Q.-R., Ignaszewski, A., Fofonoff, D., & Kaan, A. (2007). Brief screen to identify 5 of the most common forms of psychosocial distress in cardiac patients: validation of the screening tool for psychological distress. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 22(6), 525–534.

Young, Q.-R., Nguyen, M., Roth, S., Broadberry, A., & Mackay, M. H. (2015). Single-item measures for depression and anxiety: Validation of the Screening Tool for Psychological Distress in an inpatient cardiology setting. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing: Journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology, 14(6), 544–551.

Mental and physical well-being
We utilised the single item health measure (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) to assess health in the past week. Responses ranged from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent).

Ware, J. E., Jr, & Sherbourne, C. D. (1992). The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection. Medical Care, 30(6), 473–483.

Finally, to assess vitality, we recommend assessing used three positive items from the vitality scale (Ryan & Frederick, 1997), including “during the last week, I felt energized”, “vital and alive”

Ryan, R. M., & Frederick, C. (1997). On energy, personality, and health: subjective vitality as a dynamic reflection of well-being. Journal of Personality, 65(3), 529–565.