Validity of the Aboriginal Children’s Health and Well-being Measure: Aaniish Naa Gegii?

Table 2 Correlation between ACHWM and PedsQL scores

			ACHWM
			Quadrant scores				Summary score
			Spiritual^a	Emotional	Physical	Mental	Summary score
PedsQL	Domain scores	Emotional functioning	r = 0.10	r = 0.64	r = 0.48	r = 0.60	r = 0.55
		Emotional functioning	p = 0.4979	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0006	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0001
		Physical functioning	r = 0.065	r = 0.39	r = 0.45	r = 0.21	r = 0.35
		Physical functioning	p = 0.6613	p = 0.0063	p = 0.0015	p = 0.1549	p = 0.0159
		School functioning	r = 0.12	r = 0.48	r = 0.27	r = 0.55	r = 0.42
		School functioning	p = 0.4125	p = 0.0005	p = 0.0683	p = 0.0001	p = 0.0029
		Social functioning	r = −0.08	r = 0.25	r = 0.034	r = 0.34	r = 0.1507
		Social functioning	p = 0.6119	p = 0.0911	p = 0.8195	p = 0.0174	p = 0.3065
	Summary score	Physical health summary	r = 0.07	r = 0.39	r = 0.45	r = 0.21	r = 0.35
		Physical health summary	p = 0.6613	p = 0.0063	p = 0.0015	p = 0.1549	p = 0.0159
		Psychosocial health summary	r = 0.08	r = 0.61	r = 0.36	r = 0.65	r = 0.51
		Psychosocial health summary	p = 0.6107	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0113	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0002
	Total scale score		r = 0.08	r = 0.62	r = 0.46	r = 0.58	r = 0.52
	Total scale score		p = 0.5744	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0011	p < 0.0001	p = 0.0001

Shading and bold denotes a priori expectation for a higher correlation than with other cells
^aLow correlations were expected with the Spiritual Quadrant, because this is not included in the PedsQL

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