Author(s)
Purpose
- Pathology:
Endocrine system diseases
Nutritional and metabolic diseases
- Disease:
Diabetes mellitus
[ Type 1 – IDDM, Type 2 – NIDDM, Type 2 – Insulin requiring patients ]
- Objective:
To measure the degree of fear experience with respect to hypolgycaemia
- Population for intended use:
Adolescent
Adult
Caregivers
[ The HFS was also used with children +9 years ]
Characteristics
- Type of instrument:
Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Signs and symptoms
- Administration mode:
Proxy-rated
Self-administered
- Number of items:
HFS: 23 HFS-P: 25 HFS-P-YC: 26
- Recall/Observation period:
The last 6 months
Language(s)
- Original language:
English for the USA
- List of existing translations:
The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.
HFS
| Danish for Denmark |
| Dutch for the Netherlands |
| Norwegian for Norway |
Worry Subscale only
| French for France |
| German for Germany |
| Spanish for Spain |
Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire
Irvine A, Cox DJ, Gonder-Frederick L. The Fear of hypoglycemia scale. In Handbook of psychology and diabetes: a guide to psychological measurement and diabetes research and practice, 1994. 8:133-155
Cox DJ, Irvine A, Gonder-Frederick L, Nowacek G, Butterfield J. Fear of hypoglycemia: quantification, validation, and utilization. Diabetes Care 1987; 10:617-21
Last update: April 2012
Last update in collaboration with the author: November 2009
