From: Validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-BREF in a pregnant population
Original 4-domain structure | Proposed 4-domain structure | ||||
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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 |