Illness behaviour questionnaire (IBQ): translation and adaptation in India.

The Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ) of Pilowsky and Spence (1981), which was developed as a self report instrument to record aspects of "Illness Behaviour" particularly those attitudes that suggest inappropriate or maladaptive modes of responding to one's state of health (Pilowsky 1971), was translated into Hindi and adapted. Factor analysis of the data revealed four meaningful factors which correspond with the four out of seven factor reported by original authors.