Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 3 Multitrait-scaling analysis of the DCGM-37, pooled data (n = 170)

From: Psychometric properties of the DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module (DCGM-37) when used in children undergoing treatment for cancer

	Item	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
(1) Independence	1	0.43 ^a	0.29	0.39	0.35	0.34	0.23
	2	0.56	0.36	0.48	0.38	0.48	0.38
	3	0.66	0.59	0.48	0.41	0.56	0.17
	4	0.63	0.49	0.51	0.52	0.46	0.23
	5	0.68	0.60	0.53	0.46	0.55	0.20
	6	0.50	0.55 ^d	0.37	0.31	0.58 ^d	0.15
(2) Physical Limitation	7	0.57	0.50	0.36	0.36	0.58 ^d	0.20
	8	0.49	0.66	0.57	0.51	0.49	0.22
	9	0.55	0.58	0.53	0.47	0.54	0.25
	10	0.29	0.32 ^c	0.31	0.34 ^d	0.36 ^d	0.31
	11	0.26	0.37 ^c	0.33	0.40 ^d	0.28	0.19
	12	0.49	0.59	0.48	0.54	0.51	0.28
(3) Emotion	13	0.43	0.39	0.63	0.57	0.25	0.41
	14	0.52	0.51	0.70	0.59	0.41	0.42
	15	0.41	0.47	0.60	0.51	0.43	0.25
	16	0.37	0.38	0.56	0.44	0.33	0.34
	18	0.62	0.62	0.67	0.65	0.51	0.39
	19	0.40	0.48	0.54	0.42	0.46	0.40
(4) Social Exclusion	20	0.55	0.55	0.60	0.63	0.53	0.32
	21	0.27	0.35	0.35	0.45	0.23	0.34
	22	0.30	0.43 ^d	0.42 ^d	0.34 ^c	0.30	0.09
	23	0.29	0.31	0.37	0.42	0.32	0.29
	24	0.33	0.43	0.48	0.53	0.34	0.25
	25	0.50	0.46	0.60 ^d	0.51	0.40	0.31
(5) Social Inclusion	26	0.34 ^d	0.30	0.39 ^d	0.42 ^d	0.31 ^c	0.17
	27	0.52	0.56	0.36	0.35	0.66	0.21
	28	0.62 ^d	0.61 ^d	0.44	0.39	0.60	0.25
	29	0.56 ^d	0.65 ^d	0.43	0.38	0.52	0.31
	30	0.26	0.21	0.21	0.31 ^d	0.31 ^c	-0.01
	31	0.29 ^d	0.26	0.24	0.16	0.28 ^{b, c}	0.26
(6) Treatment	32	0.21	0.27	0.31	0.25	0.26	0.49
	33	0.16	0.29	0.40	0.37	0.22	0.69
	34	0.36	0.37	0.41	0.42	0.35	0.54
	35	0.14	0.21	0.39	0.29	0.16	0.77
	36	0.25	0.22	0.35	0.24	0.22	0.77
	37	0.34	0.37	0.47	0.39	0.35	0.71

^aCorrected item-total (item-to-item-within-own-dimension) correlations are in bold.
^bCorrected item-total correlations failing to meet the ≥0.30 criterion
^cCorrected item-total correlations failing to meet the ≥0.40 criterion
^dItem-to-other-dimension correlation exceeding the corrected item-total correlation (scaling failure)

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