Table 1 SDI scoring for the 16-item Social Distress Summary and SDI individual items

		Difficulty
Items	Description	No	A little	Quite a bit	A lot
SDI1	Independence	0	1	2	3
SDI2	Domestic chores	0	1	2	3
SDI3	Personal care	0	1	2	2
SDI4	Caring for dependents	0	1	2	2
SDI5	Support for dependents	0	1	2	3
SDI6	Welfare benefits	0	1	2	3
SDI7	Finances	0	1	2	3
SDI8	Financial services	0	1	2	2
SDI9	Work	0	1	2	2
SDI10	Planning the future	0	1	2	3
SDI11	Communicating with those close	0	1	2	3
SDI12	Communicating with others	0	1	2	3
SDI13	Sexual matters	0	1	2	3
SDI14	Plans to have a family	0	1	2	3
SDI15	Body image	0	1	2	3
SDI16	Isolation	0	1	2	3
SDI17	Getting around	0	1	2	3
SDI18	Where you live	0	1	2	3
SDI19	Recreation	0	1	2	3
SDI20	Holidays	0	1	2	3
SDI21	Other	0	1	2	3

SD=social distress; SDI=Social Difficulties Inventory.
Key: The five emboldened items (13, 14, 18, 20, 21) are not included in the scoring of SD.
To create the SD score, derived from Rasch analysis, items 3, 4, 8 and 9 rated at ‘very much (3)’ are re-rated at ‘quite a bit (2)’. The SD score is the sum of items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19 (range: 0–44).

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