Table 2.
Psychometric properties and country-specific standardised scoring coefficients of the SF-36
| Domains | Hungary | US | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor % (n) | Ceiling % (n) | Cronbach’s alpha | Obliquely rotated factor score coefficients (PCS) | Obliquely rotated factor score coefficients (MCS) | Orthogonally rotated factor score coefficients (PCS) | Orthogonally rotated factor score coefficients (MCS) | Orthogonally rotated factor score coefficients (PCS) [41] | Orthogonally rotated factor score coefficients (MCS) [41] | |
| Physical functioning (PF) | 0.82 (14) | 37.47 (637) | 0.891 | 0.4827 | −0.3080 | 0.3376 | −0.1116 | 0.42402 | −0.22999 |
| Role-physical (RP) | 12.71 (216) | 59.24 (1007) | 0.886 | 0.5420 | −0.2988 | 0.3961 | −0.0815 | 0.35119 | −0.12329 |
| Bodily pain (BP) | 0.53 (9) | 33.76 (574) | 0.886 | 0.2559 | −0.1157 | 0.1963 | −0.0149 | 0.31754 | −0.09731 |
| General health (GH) | 0.76 (13) | 4.35 (74) | 0.890 | 0.1495 | −0.0563 | 0.1188 | 0.0018 | 0.24954 | −0.01571 |
| Vitality (VT) | 0.65 (11) | 6.65 (113) | 0.885 | 0.0448 | 0.0969 | 0.0771 | 0.1065 | 0.02877 | 0.23534 |
| Social functioning (SF) | 0.71 (12) | 46.06 (783) | 0.888 | 0.1250 | −0.0375 | 0.1028 | 0.0105 | −0.00753 | 0.26876 |
| Role-emotional (RE) | 12.18 (207) | 63.35 (1077) | 0.893 | 0.1046 | −0.0420 | 0.0821 | −0.0012 | −0.19206 | 0.43407 |
| Mental health (MH) | 0.35 (6) | 9.65 (164) | 0.893 | −0.9490 | 1.3751 | −0.3832 | 0.9361 | −0.22069 | 0.48581 |
PCS physical component summary, MCS mental component summary, US United States