Table 11.

Multitrait scaling of PDQUALIF items (N = 96)

	Social/Role Function	Self-Image and Sexuality	Sleep	Outlook	Physical Function	Independence	Urinary Function
Social/Role Function
Work in home	0.72a	0.53	0.46	0.48	0.54	0.66	0.26
Social life I	0.56a	0.49	0.19	0.42	0.26	0.14	0.03
Imbalance	0.60a	0.51	0.30	0.42	0.49	0.57	0.34
Social life II	0.79a	0.69	0.39	0.60	0.45	0.31	0.21
Burden	0.60a	0.58	0.38	0.58	0.42	0.33	0.27
Fatigue	0.61a	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.43	0.35	0.28
Social isolation	0.80a	0.66	0.39	0.57	0.47	0.34	0.24
Travel	0.32a	0.17	0.25	0.20	0.44	0.28	0.07
Adjust to change	0.55a	0.45	0.37	0.61	0.34	0.28	0.12
Self Image and Sexuality
Self concept	0.38	0.53a	−0.04	0.38	0.35	0.14	0.05
Sexual ability	0.35	0.33a	0.23	0.18	0.25	0.33	0.44
Family relationship	0.63	0.62a	0.33	0.61	0.48	0.18	0.23
Sexual desirability	0.65	0.67a	0.28	0.67	0.44	0.32	0.21
Communication I	0.51	0.56a	0.37	0.42	0.35	0.25	0.17
Communication II	0.50	0.56a	0.33	0.34	0.30	0.29	0.24
Financial strain	0.37	0.48a	0.19	0.26	0.36	0.27	0.15
Sleep
Sleep initiation	0.53	0.38	0.63a	0.46	0.38	0.33	0.41
Sleep maintenance	0.43	0.26	0.56a	0.37	0.27	0.17	0.48
Sleep with partner	0.16	0.17	0.14a	0.12	0.21	0.20	0.22
Outlook
Future	0.51	0.44	0.30	0.52a	0.16	0.09	0.18
Maintain independence	0.13	0.03	0.15	−0.11a	0.17	0.29	0.05
Ask for help	0.41	0.49	0.23	0.37a	0.29	0.05	0.11
Outlook	0.68	0.53	0.42	0.66a	0.37	0.28	0.21
Physical Function
Neuropathy	0.37	0.29	0.20	0.13	0.35a	0.27	0.11
Dizziness	0.31	0.32	0.05	0.31	0.23a	0.07	-0.06
Swallow	0.41	0.49	0.31	0.32	0.37a	0.43	0.15
Driving	0.33	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.18a	0.23	0.04
Constipation	0.31	0.34	0.41	0.25	0.22a	0.39	0.50
Independence
Independent hygiene	0.51	0.39	0.28	0.23	0.49	0.73a	0.29
Independent food prep	0.43	0.32	0.29	0.24	0.40	0.73a	0.22
Urinary Function
Nocturia	0.20	0.29	0.47	0.18	0.18	0.20	0.80a
Uro frequency	0.33	0.32	0.49	0.24	0.32	0.32	0.80a

Bold values = highest item-scale correlation for a given item, unless the highest item-scale correlation is with the scale in which that item is placed. Italics values = item-scale correlation is less than a half of standard error (0.05) below or is higher than the correlation of that item with the scale in which it is placed

^aItem’s original scale