Psychometric Properties of the Medical Outcome Study Social Support Survey with a General Population Sample of Undergraduate Students

Are Depressive Symptomatology, Self‐Efficacy, and Perceived Social Support Related to Disability and Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Migraine Associated to Medication Overuse? Data From a Cross‐Sectional Study

“…Although the mean score at BDI‐2 was indicative of a mild depression level, more than a third of the patients had marked signs of mood reduction. With regard to the other two psychosocial variables included in our study, GSE was about 7.5% lower than the mean value reported by the Italian subsample in the large GSE validation study, and the mean value MOS‐SSS was about 5% lower than the value found in the validation study . Previous studies found significant correlations between disability, QoL, and depression in samples of patients with chronic forms of headache .…”

“…Perceived social support was evaluated with the Medical Outcome Study‐Social Support Survey (MOS‐SSS), which is a measure of the support an individual deems he/she is receiving by persons that may be helpful or caring in various aspects of life. For each of the 19 items, patients indicate on a 5‐point scale (from 1 – none of the time, to 5 – all of the time) how often each kind of support (emotional, tangible, affective, and positive social interaction) was available to them if they needed it.…”

Caregivers of patients with disorder of consciousness: burden, quality of life and social support

“…To assess caregivers' QoL, psychological burden (in terms of anxiety, depressive symptoms, prolonged grief disorder, coping strategies and anger) and level of perceived social support, the following questionnaires were selected: The World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref (WHO-QOL-BREF) (30,31); State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y (STAI-Y) (32,33), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) (34,35), Prolonged Grief Disorder Questionnaire (PG-12) (36,37), Coping Orientations to Problem Experiences (COPE) (38,39), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) (40,41) and the Medical Outcome Study Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS) (42,43).…”

“…It includes multiple dimensions of support: 'Emotional and Informational Support' (EMI), measuring the expression of positive affect, empathetic understanding, and encouragement feeling expression and the provisions of advice; 'Tangible Support' (TAN), measuring the offering of material aid or behavioural assistance; 'Affectionate Support' (AFF), measuring the expressions of love and affection; 'Positive Social Interaction' (POS), measuring the availability of other persons to do fun things with you. Linear transformation (mean score-MIN)/ (MAX-MIN) 9 100) was used with both factors and overall scores so that the transformed scores range from 0 to 100 (42,43).…”

Validation of the MOS Social Support Survey 6-item (MOS-SSS-6) measure with two large population-based samples of Australian women

“…Most subsequent studies have been among patients with health conditions [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10]. Two focused on carers of people with health conditions [2,11], and two used community samples of 485 university students [12], and 4,444 community-based householders aged 55? [13].…”