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Table 4 Relationship between Quality of Life-Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) and other instruments

From: Assessing feasibility, construct validity, and reliability of a new aged care-specific preference-based quality of life instrument: evidence from older Australians in residential aged care

 

Spearman’s correlation co-efficient (P values)

Residential aged care sample (n = 200)

Home care sample (n = 313)b

ASCOT

0.51 (< 0.001)

0.61 (< 0.001)

QCE-ACCa

0.57 (< 0.001)

0.51 (< 0.001)

EQ-5D-5L

0.52 (< 0.001)

0.56 (< 0.001)

EQ VAS

0.36 (< 0.001)

0.48 (< 0.001)

  1. QOL-ACC Quality of Life-Aged Care Consumers, QCE-ACC Quality of Care-Aged Care Consumers, ASCOT Adult Social Care Outcomes Tool, EQ5D-5L EuroQuol 5 Dimensions 5 Levels
  2. aQCE-ACC: Australian General Adult Population algorithm used (> 18 years)
  3. bKhadka J et al. Assessing the construct validity of the Quality-of-Life-Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC): an aged care-specific quality-of-life measure. Qual Life Res. 2022;31(9):2849-65 [14]