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. 2023 Jun 20;23:324. doi: 10.1186/s12905-023-02478-x

Table 3.

Internal consistency, test-retest reliability; and ceiling and floor effect score of the Sidaamu Afoo version of pelvic organ prolapse symptom score, June 2022

Items Item-total correlation Inter-item correlation Internal consistency (95% CI) (A1-A7) Ceiling (n) Floor (n) Test-retest values
(ICC3,1) 95%CI P _value
A1. A feeling of something coming down from the vagina 0.27 0.78 0.79 (0.73, 0.85) 71 0 0.83 (0.50, 0.92) < 0.001
A2. An uncomfortable feeling or pain in your vagina. 0.31 0.78 72 2 0.66 (0.48, 0.79) < 0.001
A3. A heaviness or dragging feeling in your lower abdomen. 0.61 0.72 7 21 0.78 (0.63, 0.87) < 0.001
A4. A heaviness or dragging feeling in your lower abdomen. 0.67 0.70 12 16 0.78 (0.59, 0.88) < 0.001
A5. A need to strain (push) to empty your bladder 0.55 0.73 18 25 0.81 (0.66, 0.89) < 0.001
A6. A feeling that your bladder has not emptied completely 0.54 0.73 17 22 0.75 (0.61, 0.84) < 0.001
A7. A feeling that your bowel has not emptied completely 0.51 0.74 6 51 0.81 (0.65, 0.90) < 0.001

*(ICC3, 1) = Single rating, Two-way Mixed-effects model (absolute agreement); CI = confidence interval