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Table 2 Psychometric properties of the FPQ scales

From: Participation and social functioning in patients with fibromyalgia: development and testing of a new questionnaire

 

Participation in social life FPQ-S (11 items)

Participation in daily life FPQ-D (11 items)

Participation in work-life FPQ-W 1(5 items)

Distribution properties

   

Mean percentage of missing values and ‘not applicable’ (%)

8.1

4.3

4.1

Scale mean (sum score, 0–100, 100 = best possible participation) (mean, standard deviation, N)

39.2 (21.2) N = 223

60.3 (20.6) N = 239

34.6 (21.3) N = 184

Unidimensionality

   

Fit values

CFI = 0.943

CFI = 0.944

CFI = 0.985

TLI = 0.929

TLI = 0.930

TLI = 0.969

RMSEA = 0.099

RMSEA = 0.089

RMSEA = 0.106

SRMR = 0.042

SRMR = 0.046

SRMR = 0.025

Local independence

   

Percentage of residual correlations >0.10 (%)

9.1

7.3

30.0

Percentage of residual correlations >0.20 (%)

0

0

0

IRT analysis

   

Number of items with poor item fit (infit or outfit <0.6 or >1.4)

0

0

2

Reliability

   

Cronbach’s Alpha

0.94

0.93

0.85

Person separation index

0.91

0.90

0.91

Differential item functioning

   

Number of items with DIF

0

0

0

  1. 1 only for persons employed outside the home or in job training (i.e., school, apprenticeship, college).