Assessing the psychometric properties of the French WHOQOL-HIV BREF within the ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort’s QuAliV ancillary study

Table 6 Convergent & discriminant validity of the WHOQOL-HIV BREF

Domain	Range correlation coefficient				Convergent Validity		Discriminant validity
	convergent validity		discriminant validity		Success^a/Total	%	Success^b/Total	%
	min	max	min	max
I. Physical health	0.65	0.72	0.27	0.65	4/4	100	4/4	100
II. Psychological health	0.67	0.77	0.31	0.56	5/5	100	5/5	100
III. Level of independence	0.70	0.80	0.21	0.63	4/4	100	4/4	100
IV. Social relations	0.73	0.75	0.28	0.57	4/4	100	4/4	100
V. Environmental health	0.45	0.71	0.12	0.61	8/8	100	8/8	100
VI. Spirituality/religion and personal beliefs	0.58	0.82	0.15	0.66	4/4	100	3/4	75

^aSuccess: a correlation coefficient ≧ 0.4 for items and their respective domain
^bSuccess: a correlation coefficient for item greater in respective domain compared to other 5 domains

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