The Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) 3.0 Asthma Module: reliability and validity

Table 6 Pearson Correlations Coefficients Among PedsQL™ Subscales*

Subscales	Tot	PH	PSY	EM	SOC	SCH	A	TX	W	C
Total score (Tot)	0.44	0.82	0.94	0.76	0.71	0.72	0.64	0.59	0.45	0.44
Physical Health (PH)	0.85	0.45	0.58	0.46	0.45	0.45	0.57	0.47	0.37	0.34
Psychosocial Health (PSY)	0.96	0.67	0.40	0.81	0.76	0.76	0.57	0.57	0.43	0.43
Emotional Functioning (EM)	0.79	0.52	0.84	0.25	0.48	0.39	0.51	0.54	0.39	0.34
Social Functioning (SOC)	0.81	0.62	0.81	0.55	0.36	0.35	0.36	0.39	0.31	0.35
School Functioning (SCH)	0.74	0.49	0.78	0.43	0.50	0.49	0.45	0.39	0.29	0.31
Asthma Symptoms (A)	0.65	0.60	0.60	0.51	0.44	0.51	0.56	0.58	0.42	0.20
Treatment Problems (TX)	0.60	0.46	0.60	0.56	0.49	0.42	0.59	0.30	0.40	0.38
Worry (W)	0.41	0.34	0.40	0.34	0.35	0.29	0.46	0.56	0.32	0.20
Communication (C)	0.37	0.31	0.36	0.31	0.37	0.26	0.38	0.51	0.35	0.27

*Correlations for patient self-report are shown above the diagonal.
Underlined values represent correlations between patient self-report and parent proxy-report.
Correlations for parent proxy-report are shown below the diagonal.
Correlations among Generic Core Scale Total Score with the Asthma Module subscale scores are in boldface.
Effect size are designated as small (0.10-0.29), medium (0.30-0.49), and large (≥0.50)

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