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Table 8 Concordance of patients' rating of QOL and caregiver impression of patients' QOL

From: Factors associated with quality of life of outpatients with breast cancer and gynecologic cancers and their family caregivers: a controlled study

 

Mean (SD)

Statistics

  

QOL domains

Patient's rating QOL

Carer rating pt's QOL

Paired T

DF

P

Kendall's tau

P

Physical health

13.4 (1.7)

12.9 (1.7)

3.9

178

0.001

0.56

0.001

Psychological health

20.9 (2.9)

19.2 (1.6)

10.1

177

0.001

0.45

0.001

Independence

17.2 (2.5)

14.8 (1.5)

14.1

179

0.001

0.35

0.001

Social relations

12.1 (3.0)

12.2 (2.6)

0.5

 

ns

0.64

0.001

Environment

30.4 (5.4)

34.6 (5.6)

15.4

176

0.001

0.60

0.001

Spiritual

4.7 (0.5)

4.7 (0.5)

0.4

 

ns

0.12

ns

General facet on health & QOL

8.3 (1.9)

8.5 (1.4)

2.3

178

0.02

0.57

0.001

  1. Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) for responses to the two questionnaires = 0.96 (95% C.I. = 0.95 – 0.97)