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Table 5 Internal consistency: Cronbach’s alpha and item-domain correlations for the original and proposed four-factor domains (n = 1015)

From: Validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-BREF in a pregnant population

 

Original 4-domain structure

 

Proposed 4-domain structure

Cronbach’s alpha

(alpha if item deleted)

Corrected item-domain correlations

 

Cronbach’s alpha

(alpha if item deleted)

Corrected item-domain correlations

Physical domain

0.874

  

0.885

 

Item 3

(0.848)

0.711

 

(0.865)

0.709

Item 4

(0.873)

0.516

 

(0.885)

0.509

Item 10

(0.857)

0.647

 

(0.870)

0.670

Item 14a

-

-

 

(0.874)

0.628

Item 15

(0.855)

0.666

 

(0.869)

0.679

Item 16

(0.871)

0.532

 

(0.882)

0.542

Item 17

(0.837)

0.796

 

(0.856)

0.803

Item 18

(0.846)

0.720

 

(0.864)

0.718

Psychological domain

0.803

  

0.826

 

Item 5

(0.749)

0.686

 

(0.789)

0.687

Item 6

(0.761)

0.628

 

(0.795)

0.644

Item 7

(0.790)

0.477

 

(0.811)

0.510

Item 8a

-

-

 

(0.798)

0.609

Item 9a

-

-

 

(0.827)

0.361

Item 11

(0.831)

0.380

 

(0.840)

0.382

Item 19

(0.737)

0.705

 

(0.785)

0.686

Item 26

(0.763)

0.602

 

(0.796)

0.619

Social domain

0.612

  

0.646

 

Item 20

(0.376)

0.530

 

(0.499)

0.544

Item 21

(0.658)

0.342

 

(0.651)

0.349

Item 22

(0.515)

0.420

 

(0.545)

0.472

Item 23a

-

-

 

(0.612)

0.373

Environmental domain

0.747

  

0.663

 

Item 8a

(0.707)

0.523

 

-

-

Item 9a

(0.730)

0.393

 

-

-

Item 12

(0.714)

0.485

 

(0.644)

0.403

Item 13

(0.714)

0.507

 

(0.596)

0.474

Item 14a

(0.737)

0.381

 

-

-

Item 23a

(0.731)

0.384

 

-

-

Item 24

(0.712)

0.488

 

(0.560)

0.501

Item 25

(0.719)

0.449

 

(0.589)

0.454

  1. Note.a = Originally in the Environmental domain