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. 2010 Jan 28;8:14. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-14

Table 6.

Intercorrelations of subscales of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Generic Core Scales and Cardiac Module assessed with Pearson correlation coefficient

Cardiac module

Heart-problems-symptoms Treatment II Perc. Phys. appearance Treatment anxiety Cognitive problems Communication
Generic core scales
 Child Self-report
  Total 0.544 0.27 0.45 0.39 0.58 0.46
  Physical functioning 0.63 0.29 0.35 0.34 0.46 0.401
  Psychosocial functioning 0.41 0.23 0.45 0.37 0.58 0.44
  Emotional functioning 0.38 0.24 0.43 0.38 0.47 0.38
  Social functioning 0.35 0.13 0.38 0.27 0.45 0.41
  School functioning 0.32 0.27 0.35 0.30 0.57 0.34
 Parent Proxy-report
  Total 0.57 0.47 0.40 0.35 0.57 0.45
  Physical functioning 0.66 0.33 0.34 0.29 0.43 0.36
  Psychosocial functioning 0.43 0.49 0.38 0.34 0.58 0.45
  Emotional functioning 0.33 0.45 0.39 0.37 0.41 0.38
  Social functioning 0.32 0.37 0.28 0.24 0.44 0.37
  School functioning 0.41 0.43 0.26 0.22 0.60 0.37

Effect sizes are designated as small (0.10), medium (0.30) and large (0.50)