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Table 3 Psychometric properties

From: Health-related quality of life in the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C): development of a dementia-specific scale and descriptive analyses

Psychometric property

Statistic

p value

Acceptability

  

 % missing (summary score)

2.73%

 

Skewness

  

Shapiro-Wilk

 

<0.05

Skewness test

 

0.056

Shapiro-Francia

 

<0.05

Reliability

  

 Internal consistency (alpha)

0.73

 

Validity

  

Convergent (Spearman rho)

  

 MMSE

0.059

0.55

 Disability

-0.08

0.40

Discriminant

  

 Age

-0.048

0.62

Known groups

  

 Sex (z)

1.958

0.05

 Education (z)

0.751

0.45

 Marital status (χ2)

2.989

0.39

 Self perceived health (z)

-2.428

0.02

Factor analysis

1 factor solution

22% variance