Table 4.
Intraclass correlations for patient–professional pairs of symptom severity scores over prior 24 hours.
| n | ICC(95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Patient–GP | ||
| Pain | 68 | 0.58 (0.40 to 0.72) |
| Nausea | 67 | 0.67 (0.51 to 0.79) |
| Vomiting | 69 | 0.48 (0.27 to 0.64) |
| Constipation | 62 | 0.50 (0.29 to 0.67) |
| Fatigue | 68 | 0.55 (0.35 to 0.70) |
| Breathlessness | 67 | 0.70 (0.55 to 0.81) |
| Anxiety | 67 | 0.47 (0.25 to 0.64) |
| Depression | 67 | 0.50 (0.30 to 0.66) |
| Patient–district nurse | ||
| Pain | 52 | 0.59 (0.37 to 0.74) |
| Nausea | 50 | 0.53 (0.29 to 0.70) |
| Vomiting | 49 | 0.13 (−0.15 to 0.39) |
| Constipation | 50 | 0.55 (0.33 to 0.72) |
| Fatigue | 51 | 0.52 (0.28 to 0.70) |
| Breathlessness | 51 | 0.73 (0.57 to 0.84) |
| Anxiety | 48 | 0.49 (0.11 to 0.71) |
| Depression | 49 | 0.50 (0.13 to 0.72) |
a
Not all symptom assessments were completed by both raters in each set of pairs which results in different numbers of pairs for individual symptoms.
b
Two way mixed effect model; absolute agreement definition; single measure ICC. ICC = Intraclass correlation.