Validation of the Swedish Translation of a Brief Shame Measure, the External and Internal Shame Scale

Validation of the Swedish Translation of a Brief Shame Measure, the External and Internal Shame Scale (EISS)

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07206966

Acronym

EMBER-1

Enrollment

350

Registered

2025-10-03

Start date

2025-10-23

Completion date

2026-08-01

Last updated

2026-04-13

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Conditions

Shame

Keywords

Psychometrics, Psychological Tests, Shame, Patient Health Questionnaire, Surveys and Questionnaires

Brief summary

Shame is a normal emotion that people sometimes have. Experiencing a lot of shame has however been found to have a link to ill mental and somatic health. Therefore it is of interest to have a brief way of measuring shame. External and Internal shame scale (EISS) is a questionnaire with 8 items that is available in several languages, but not yet in Swedish. The researchers have translated it to Swedish and will investigate how well the Swedish version works for measuring shame. 300 participants are enrolled via social media and asked to complete the EISS as well as two other scales for comparison. Participants are also asked about their age and gender. In addition 50 participants will be recruited from an outpatient clinic in order to check how the scale works in clinical settings. The researchers will use the answers to statistically calculate the scientific properties of the EISS.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Must be 18 years of age or above * Must be capable of communicating in Swedish * Participants in clinical samples must be patients at one of the clinics involved in the study.

Exclusion criteria

* None.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
EISS	Within a week of enrollment	External and Internal Shame Scale, an 8-item measure with a total scale ranging from 0 to 32 points, and two subscales of internal and external shame, ranging from 0 to 16 each. Self-assessment of how often one feels what is described in each item, ranging from "never" (0) to "always" (4).

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
ISS	Within a week of enrollment	Internalized Shame Scale consists of 30 items, of which 24 measure internalized shame and 6 measure self esteem. Self assessment of "how often one feels or experiences" each of the items, ranging from "never" (0) to "almost always" (4).
PHQ-9	Within a week of enrollment	Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item version is a widely used depression screening tool, measuring levels of depression symptoms. Self-assessment of how often one has been bothered by the symptoms in question over the past 2 weeks, ranging from "not at all" (0) to "nearly every day" (3). Total range 0-27.

Countries

Sweden

Contacts

CONTACTTove Filén

tove.filen@nck.uu.se+46186170785

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORCarolina Överlien, professor

The National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women, Uppsala university

Outcome results