Peer Facilitated Waitlist Controlled Transportation Study

Temple University Community Participation Measure

Measures engagement in 29 participation areas, if those areas are important to them, how often they did them and if it was enough, not enough, or too much. Higher reported frequency across a greater number of areas indicates higher rates of participation. Higher number of activities reported as being important and done enough indicate greater sufficiency of participation.

LASA Sedentary Behaviors Questionnaire

This survey measures the time spent doing various activities that are usually completed while sitting down. For a 24-hour period on both weekdays and weekends, the reporting asks "How much time do you spend (from when you wake up until you go to bed) doing the following?" For this research, it will be used to measure changes in sedentary behaviors over time.

Transportation Appraisal Scale

This measure assesses participants' ability to use public transportation and travel around their community. Items are asked on a 4-point scale, asking how much help is needed with various travel tasks, including reading schedules to plan a trip and knowing how to pay for transportation. For this research, it will be used to measure changes in transportation self-efficacy over time.

Indego Skills Survey

This is an open-ended questionnaire to assess participants' skills with navigating the Indeo bike-sharing program in Philadelphia. Researchers give points to participants' responses on questions pertaining to the access, payment, and return of the bikes. For this research, it will be used to measure Indego skills at the time of the interview.

Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Inventory (ISMI) (Brief Version)

This scale is designed to measure self-stigma among persons with psychiatric disorders. The brief measure takes the strongest items from each of the subscales of the full measure. The subscales and item examples include: Alienation (e.g. "Having a mental illness has spoiled my life"), Stereotype Endorsement (e.g., "Mentally ill people tend to be violent"), Discrimination Experience (e.g., "People discriminate against me because I have a mental illness"), Social Withdrawal (e.g., " I don't talk about myself as much because I don't want to burden others with my mental illness"), and Stigma Resistance (e.g., "I can have a good, fulfilling life, despite my mental illness") that is scored on a 4-point Likert scale. For this research, it will be used to measure changes in internalized stigma over time.

University of California, Los Angeles, Loneliness Scale

These 3 questions are only being given to people who report having a mental illness. The questions related to how often people feel socially isolated or lonely. Response options range from 1) hardly ever, 2) some of the time, and 3) often. Responses (3) indicate increased loneliness and more "hardly ever" responses indicate less loneliness.

Pearlin Mastery Scale (Coping)

This is 7-item mastery scale to assess participants' feeling of control over their lives. Items are asked on a 4-point Likert scale and include statement like "I have little control over the things that happen to me" and "What happens to me in the future mostly depends on me." For this research, it will be used to measure changes in participants' abilities to cope with symptoms over time.

SF- 36 v2

This measure asks about health status and physical capability of daily activities. Participants are asked to rank their health over the last week, including experiences of pain, sickness, tiredness, and physical activities like walking or carrying. For this research, it will be used to measure self-perceived physical health.