Development and Validation of Acupuncture Fear Scale

Table 4

Internal consistency of the acupuncture fear scale (𝑁=275).

Item	Score (mean ± SD)	Item-total correlation
AFS1	2.09±0.95	0.686
AFS2	2.25±1.05	0.673
AFS3	1.96±1.01	0.625
AFS4	2.25±1.01	0.715
AFS5	2.24±1.04	0.753
AFS6	3.28±1.13	0.628
AFS7	2.13±0.98	0.742
AFS8	2.16±0.94	0.737
AFS9	2.80±1.03	0.660
AFS10	2.29±1.02	0.735
AFS11	2.60±1.14	0.659
AFS12	2.18±1.01	0.692
AFS13	1.95±0.92	0.637
AFS14	1.85±0.88	0.641
AFS15	2.44±1.12	0.515
AFS16	2.19±0.97	0.560

AFS: acupuncture fear scale, *Cronbach’s α coefficient of the total is 0.935; each item scored by the patient is on a 5-point Likert scale, from 1 (not at all) to 5 (extremely).