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Table 4 Revised thresholds and response categories for the Symptom domain of the SGRQ

From: A psychometric assessment of the St. George’s respiratory questionnaire in patients with COPD using rasch model analysis

 

Thresholds between response categories (logits)

Item

“Most days”/“several days”

“Several days”/“only with infection”

“Only with infection”/“not at all”

S_a1

0.14

0.87

1.53

S_a2

0.13

0.86

1.51

S_a3

–0.43

0.30

0.96

S_a4

–0.82

–0.09

0.57

Item

3 or more attacks/1 or 2 attacks

1 or 2 attacks/no attacks

 

S_a5

–3.88

–0.93

 

Item

no days/some or a few days

some or a few days/every day

 

S_a7

–1.07

2.19