Quality of life after pulmonary embolism: validation of the French version of the PEmb-QoL questionnaire

Table 6 Pairwise spearman correlations between SF-36 and PEmb-QoL dimension/summary score*

PEmb-QoL	SF-36 physical functioning	Physical role functioning	Bodily pain	General health	Vitality	Social functioning	Emotional role functioning	Mental health	Physical health summary	Mental health summary
Frequency of complaints	0.47	0.51	0.68	0.47	0.60	0.56	0.49	0.61	0.49	0.59
ADL limitations	0.90	0.72	0.61	0.57	0.54	0.56	0.64	0.40	0.80	0.39
Work-related problems	0.62	0.80	0.66	0.47	0.58	0.63	0.59	0.42	0.70	0.46
Social limitations	0.62	0.70	0.61	0.54	0.57	0.69	0.58	0.53	0.64	0.56
Intensity of complaints	0.59	0.58	0.72	0.50	0.66	0.67	0.51	0.56	0.60	0.58
Emotional complaints	0.53	0.68	0.65	0.55	0.62	0.83	0.71	0.71	0.54	0.76
PEmb-QoL summary score	0.80	0.77	0.75	0.61	0.69	0.75	0.68	0.60	0.76	0.61

Abbreviations: ADL = Activities of daily living.
*Numbers represent Spearman correlation coefficients (r). The SF-36 summary and dimension scores were reversed for this analysis, i.e. the lower the score, the better the quality of life. All correlations between dimension/summary scores were statistically significant (P <0.001).

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