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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2006;20(3):176–181. doi: 10.1097/00002093-200607000-00009

TABLE 3.

Items Included in the Symptom Management at End-of-Life With Dementia Scale (SM-EOLD), and the Pearson and Spearman Correlations Between an Individual Item, and the Sum of the Remaining Items that Constitute the SM-EOLD Scale

Item Pearson Correlation (95% CI) With SM-EOLD Spearman Correlation (95% CI) With SM-EOLD
Pain 0.27 (0.13, 0.40) 0.27 (0.12, 0.40)
Shortness of breath 0.12 (− 0.02, 0.27) 0.16 (0.01, 0.30)
Skin breakdown 0.01 (− 0.13, 0.16) −0.004 (− 0.15, 0.14)
Calm 0.32 (0.18, 0.45) 0.42 (0.29, 0.54)
Depression 0.27 (0.13, 0.40) 0.25 (0.11, 0.39)
Fear 0.44 (0.32, 0.55) 0.43 (0.30, 0.54)
Anxiety 0.61 (0.51, 0.70) 0.57 (0.46, 0.66)
Agitation 0.69 (0.61, 0.76) 0.69 (0.60, 0.76)
Resistiveness to care 0.45 (0.33, 0.56) 0.44 (0.32, 0.55)

Cronbach coefficient α for the SM-EOLD scale was 0.68 (lower limit of 95% CI = 0.62) (N = 176).