Objective:To introduce the Chinese version of brief illness perception questionnaire(B-IPQ) and to investigate its psycho-metric attributes in patients with somatoform disorder. Methods:Totally 237 patients with somatoform disorder were chosen to com-plete the Chinese version B-IPQ;item analysis,exploratory factor analysis,internal consistency checking,etc were conducted. At the same time,they were asked to complete the SDS and SAS to test the criterion related validity. Ninety-five of the 237 patients were asked to complete the Chinese version B-IPQ again after 2 weeks to test the test-retest reliability. Results:Item analysis showed that correlation coefficients of each item score and total score were 0.556-0.842;there were significant differences in each item scores and total score between high score group and low score group;the Cronbach’s α coefficient was 0.831;the test-retest reliability of the scale and each entry were 0.931,0.771-0.849. Exploratory factor analysis showed that the B-IPQ had a single dimension scale char-acteristic. Correlations coefficients with SAS,SDS scores were 0.640,0.616. Conclusion:The Chinese version of B-IPQ has good psy-chometric attributes to assess the illness perception status of patients with somatoform disorder and can be taken as an effective in-strument.