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Table 7 Classical Test Theory –Summary for PRI Health and Addiction Risk Scales in Surveys 1 and 2

From: Development and validation of a new instrument to measure perceived risks associated with the use of tobacco and nicotine-containing products

Proposed Scale

(# items)

Range

don’t know responses

(%)

Min-Max

Sum score

Mean Sum score

(SD)

Range

CITC

Ceiling/ Floor (%)

Skewness

Cronbach’s alpha

Mean IIC

Range IIC

Survey 1

 Health Risk (18)

11–15

18–90

54.4 (22.32)

0.89–0.93

7/10

0.05

0.99

0.83

0.76–0.90

 Addiction Risk (7)

8–12

6–30

20.7 (7.50)

0.90–0.93

8/20

−0.41

0.98

0.87

0.82–0.91

Survey 2

 Health Risk (18)

12–14

18–90

56.1 (20.46)

0.88–0.92

5/10

0.02

0.99

0.81

0.75–0.89

 Addiction Risk (7)

8–13

6–30

20.6 (7.09)

0.92–0.95

6/18

−0.32

0.98

0.89

0.85–0.93

  1. SD standard deviation, CITC corrected item-total correlation, IIC inter-item correlation