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

Table 6 Construct validity: Pearson’s r correlations between domains and overall QOL and general health (n = 1015)

	Q1	Q2	Q1 + Q2	Proposed Phy	Proposed Psy	Proposed Soc	Proposed Env
Overall QOL (Q1)	-	0.667^***	0.906^***	0.555^***	0.636^***	0.465^***	0.314^***
Overall health (Q2)	0.667^***	-	0.920^***	0.586^***	0.567^***	0.384^***	0.289^***
Overall QOL and health (Q1 + Q2)	0.906^***	0.920^***	-	0.625^***	0.657^***	0.463^***	0.330^***
Physical domain (Original)	0.545^***	0.579^***	0.616^***	-	0.552^***	0.372^***	0.365^***
Psychological domain (Original)	0.627^***	0.574^***	0.656^***	0.544^***	-	0.586^***	0.490^***
Social domain (Original)	0.457^***	0.382^***	0.458^***	0.370^***	0.565^***	-	0.403^***
Environmental domain (Original)	0.477^***	0.425^***	0.493^***	0.496^***	0.593^***	0.493^***	-

Note. Correlations with Original domains are shown under the diagonal, and correlations with the proposed domains above the diagonal; ^*** p < .001.

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