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Table 5 Reliability analysis of 25-item ADDQoL-Teen (whole sample)

From: The development of a new measure of quality of life for young people with diabetes mellitus: the ADDQoL-Teen

Item

Scale mean if item deleted

Scale variance if item deleted

Corrected item-total correlation

Alpha if item deleted

1: others fuss

-44.67

1412.16

0.4881

0.9102

2: sweets

-44.33

1357.63

0.6016

0.9079

3: drink

-45.60

1429.77

0.5125

0.9103

4: eat

-44.56

1363.22

0.5800

0.9084

5: insulin

-44.50

1334.19

0.6447

0.9070

6: bleed

-44.37

1391.05

0.5024

0.9099

8: interrupt do

-44.56

1364.32

0.5632

0.9088

9: finger tests

-44.59

1385.38

0.4451

0.9114

10: control

-45.51

1426.39

0.3727

0.9121

11: moody

-44.35

1376.36

0.5240

0.9096

12: unwell

-44.19

1391.50

0.4842

0.9103

15: wake nights

-45.15

1423.99

0.5022

0.9102

16: lie in bed

-44.75

1404.51

0.3802

0.9127

17: miss events

-46.22

1442.99

0.4281

0.9114

18: low BG

-45.28

1430.58

0.4483

0.9109

19: high BG

-44.33

1392.77

0.5171

0.9096

20: worry future

-44.64

1377.43

0.5054

0.9100

21: career

-44.42

1364.17

0.5803

0.9084

22: different

-45.20

1362.36

0.7117

0.9062

23: not allowed

-44.55

1361.46

0.6364

0.9073

24: family life

-45.16

1372.68

0.6134

0.9078

25: responsibility

-45.50

1415.25

0.4332

0.9111

26: play sport

-45.26

1396.84

0.5138

0.9097

27: go toilet

-45.38

1422.21

0.5002

0.9102

28: social life

-44.09

1349.43

0.5856

0.9083

  1. Alpha = 0.9129, standardised item alpha = 0.9144 (N = 133).