Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 5 Internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha, α) and test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC)

From: Development and evaluation of a quality of life measurement scale in English and Chinese for family caregivers of patients with advanced cancers

Scale^a	All		English		Chinese
Scale^a	α	ICC	α	ICC	α	ICC
PW	0.92	0.81	0.91	0.87	0.92	0.76
MW	0.86	0.78	0.85	0.75	0.87	0.81
EM	0.86	0.74	0.85	0.74	0.86	0.75
DL	0.91	0.86	0.92	0.84	0.91	0.86
FW	0.91	0.78	0.92	0.78	0.90	0.79
QOL Total	0.93	0.89	0.93	0.88	0.93	0.90

^aPW Physical Well-being, MW Mental Well-being, EM Experience & Meaning, DL Impact on Daily Living, FW Financial Well-being, QOL Total QOL total score

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