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Table 3 Psychometric properties of smoking-specific measures, German and US current and former smokers

From: Evaluation of smoking-specific and generic quality of life measures in current and former smokers in Germany and the United States

 

Item-Total correlations

Reliabilitya

 

Median

Range

German Sample (N = 179)

   

Smoking Symptoms

0.42

0.12–0.58

0.71

Smoking Impact

0.44

0.33–0.62

0.72

US Sample (N = 259)

   

Smoking Symptoms

0.49

0.37–0.62

0.76

Smoking Impact

0.58

0.48–0.72

0.79

  1. aInternal consistency reliability computed using Cronbach’s alpha