Survey

For pain severity, the patients marked their pain severity on a line of 10 centimeters (cm) with the starting point (0) expressing no pain, and the end point (10) expressing the most severe pain experienced in life; for patient's global assesment the patients marked their global assesment on a line of 10 centimeters (cm) with the starting point (0) expressing very good, and the end point (10) expressing very bad.

It is a scale to evaluate how stressful some situations in life are perceived by the individual. The long form of the scale consists of 14 items in total. The situations given in each item are evaluated with a 5-point Likert-type scale (0=never, 1=almost never, 2=sometimes, 3=fairly often, 4=very often). The scale has two short forms consisting of 10 and 4 items. The total score ranges from 0-56 for PSS-14, 0-40 for PSS-10, and 0-16 for PSS-4. The higher the scores, the greater the person's perception of stress.

It is a scale to evaluate sleep quality and disorders. It consists of 24 questions in total. 19 questions are self-assessment questions, 5 questions are assessment questions made by their spouse or roommate. 18 question items are used in scoring. The scale consists of 7 components: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. While some of the components consist of a single question item, some are formed by grouping several items. Each component is scored between 0 and 3 points, and the total score of the components gives the total score of the scale. The higher the total score the worse the sleep quality.

It is a general health status scale that evaluates perceived problems in physical, emotional and social areas and how these problems affect daily activities. The questions in the first part of the scale are about the health status of the people, and the questions in the second part are about the effects of their health status on daily life. The first part consists of 38 items in which each item is answered as yes or no. This section has a total of 6 sub-dimensions: pain, emotional reactions, sleep, social isolation and physical mobility and energy. The higher the score, the worse the perception of quality of life regarding health status. The second part consists of 7 items that question whether there are problems in the daily life areas that are most likely to be affected by the health condition of the person, such as work life, housework, social life, interpersonal relationships, sexual life, hobbies and holidays, each item being answered as yes or no.