Smoking abstinence expectancies are beliefs about negative and positive short-term psychological and physiological consequences of not smoking. The Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Questionnaire (SAEQ) is a widely used Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess smoking abstinence expectancies. It has four subscales: negative mood, somatic symptoms, harmful consequences, positive consequences. Although studied from a psychometric perspective, the SAEQ needs further evaluation. Clinimetrics, and its Clinimetric Criteria for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (CLIPROM), offers a robust method to evaluate the SAEQ. We verified construct validity and sensitivity of the Italian version of the SAEQ applying CLIPROM criteria. A total of 293 adult Italian smokers were consecutively enrolled at two smoking cessation clinics and assessed via the SAEQ. Item Response Theory models (i.e., combining Rasch and Mokken analyses) were used to test construct validity and sensitivity. The total score of the SAEQ was not found to be unidimensional but each SAEQ subscale score was. PSI (0.90) indicated that the total score of the SAEQ could reliably discriminate between respondents with different levels of the trait under assessment, whereas SAEQ subscales on negative mood and harmful consequences could reliably distinguish between different groups but not between different subjects (PSI ranging from 0.77 and 0.78). Overall, the total score of the SAEQ is a sensitive screening PROM and can be used at smoking cessation clinics to discriminate between subjects with different levels of smoking abstinence expectancies. SAEQ subscales should be used to detect severity and subjective burden of a wide range of expected effects of nicotine abstinence.

戒烟预期是关于不吸烟的消极和积极的短期心理和生理后果的信念。戒烟预期问卷 (SAEQ) 是一种广泛使用的患者报告结果测量 (PROM)，用于评估戒烟预期。它有四个分量表：消极情绪、躯体症状、有害后果、积极后果。尽管从心理测量角度进行研究，但 SAEQ 需要进一步评估。Clinimetrics 及其患者报告结果测量的临床标准 (CLIPROM) 提供了一种评估 SAEQ 的可靠方法。我们使用 CLIPROM 标准验证了意大利语版 SAEQ 的结构有效性和敏感性。共有 293 名意大利成年吸烟者在两家戒烟诊所连续登记，并通过 SAEQ 进行评估。项目反应理论模型（即结合 Rasch 和 Mokken 分析）用于测试结构有效性和敏感性。没有发现 SAEQ 的总分是一维的，但每个 SAEQ 子量表的得分都是。PSI (0.90) 表明，SAEQ 的总分可以可靠地区分具有不同水平被评估特征的受访者，而关于消极情绪和有害后果的 SAEQ 分量表可以可靠地区分不同的群体，但不能区分不同的受试者（PSI 范围从0.77 和 0.78）。总体而言，SAEQ 的总分是一个敏感的筛查 PROM，可用于戒烟诊所，以区分具有不同戒烟预期水平的受试者。