Table 5.

Convergent validity of the Mongolian version of WHOQOL-BREF (n=301)

Items / Domains	Domains, r
	Physical	Psychological	Social	Environment
Item convergence (r ≥ 0.4)	6/7	6/6	3/3	8/8
Corrected item-total correlations
Domain 1: Physical health
Q3 Pain	0.707***	0.362***	0.236***	0.282***
Q4 Medication	0.673***	0.327***	0.105	0.241***
Q10 Energy	0.742***	0.687***	0.472***	0.675***
Q15 Mobility	0.133*	–0.126*	–0.110	–0.011
Q16 Sleep	0.761***	0.549***	0.480***	0.575***
Q17 Activity	0.723***	0.640***	0.619***	0.720***
Q18 Work	0.635***	0.617***	0.506***	0.617***
Domain 2: Psychological health
Q5 Positive	0.549***	0.764***	0.480***	0.636***
Q6 Spirit	0.464***	0.755***	0.513***	0.640***
Q7 Think	0.487***	0.700***	0.403***	0.567***
Q11 Body	0.449***	0.766***	0.448***	0.557***
Q19 Esteem	0.545***	0.751***	0.633***	0.651***
Q26 Negative	0.348***	0.558***	0.300***	0.363***
Domain 3: Social relationship
Q20 Relationship	0.491***	0.664***	0.724***	0.628***
Q21 Sex	0.251***	0.407***	0.699***	0.347***
Q22 Support	0.325***	0.360***	0.732***	0.490***
Domain 4: Environmental health
Q8 Safety	0.532***	0.653***	0.468***	0.729***
Q9 Environment	0.455***	0.558***	0.457***	0.723***
Q12 Finance	0.503***	0.604***	0.511***	0.777***
Q13 Information	0.480***	0.610***	0.567***	0.767***
Q14 Leisure	0.532***	0.594***	0.459***	0.736***
Q23 Home	0.538***	0.711***	0.648***	0.771***
Q24 Service	0.429***	0.442***	0.369***	0.661***
Q25 Transport	0.309***	0.360***	0.329***	0.590***
Inter-item correlations for domains
Physical domain	1
Psychological domain	0.659***	1
Social domain	0.479***	0.640***	1
Environment domain	0.657***	0.787***	0.664***	1

*p<0.05

***p<0.001

p-values were calculated using Pearson’s correlations.