Abstract
Objectives: 1. To describe the original IPQ-R (Moss-Morris et al., 2002), 2. to describe the translation, administration and scoring of the Czech version, 3. to asses its psychometric properties, 4. to compare the findings with the translation to 9 other languages.
The Czech version keeps the three-part structure of the original measure A- experienced symptoms, B- illness perceptions, C - perceptions of causes of respondentۥs illness. Subject and Settings.
IPQ-R was administered to 345 hospitalized patients (ages 16 to 88, M=53,0. SD=15,7).
Results. The original scales of illness perception (part B) internally consistent in the Czech version and discriminate among various types of illness.
Factor structure and validity is unclear and substantially different from the original English version. The same applies to perceived causes of illness (part C).