Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 4 Correlations among the PQLI scales.

From: The "Palliative Care Quality of Life Instrument (PQLI)" in terminal cancer patients

	AC	SC	HE	CT	SU	CO	PA	OQOL
Activity (AC)		.89^a	.90^a	.81^a	.80^a	.88^a	.96^a	.93^a
Self Care (SC)	.87^a		.92^a	.85^a	.87^a	.82^a	.93^a	.92^a
Health (HE)	.89^a	.90^a		.95^a	.80^a	.63^b	.96^a	.90^a
Choice of Treatment (CT)	.78^a	.84^a	.95^a		.77^a	.69^b	.78^a	.88^a
Support (SU)	.81^a	.84^a	.76^a	.78^a		.62^b	.79^a	.82^a
Communication (CO)	.86^a	.78^a	.79^a	.61^b	.87^a		.81^a	.83^a
Psychological Affect (PA)	.96^a	.91^a	.94^a	.82^a	.86^a	.75^a		.94^a
Overall Quality of Life (OQoL)	.91^a	.89^a	.85^a	.87^a	.85^a	.81^a	.89^a

* Before treatment under the diagonal; during treatment above the diagonal. Values represent the Spearman-rho coefficient. ^a: correlation is significant at the .01 level (2-tailed). ^b: correlation is significant at the .05 level (2-tailed).

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