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. 2010 May 17;8:16. doi: 10.1186/1546-0096-8-16

Table 3.

Discriminative validity of different CHAQ revisions compared to the original CHAQ.

T-test Mann-Whitney U-test


CHAQ version Score patients Score controls T statistic P U statistic Z score P relative efficiency
CHAQ30orig 0.38 (0-2.13) 0 (0-0.63) -7.52 (df 109) <0.001 344 -4.84 <0.001 1.00
CHAQ30CATI 0.10 (0-1.62) 0 (0-0.23) -6.90 (df 102) <0.001 333 -4.92 <0.001 0.84
CHAQ38CATI 0.19 (0-1.84) 0 (0-0.26) -7.56 (df 101) <0.001 263 -5.33 <0.001 1.01
CHAQ30CATII -0.033 (-1.69-2) 0 (-0.026-0.071) 2.37 (df 90) 0.02 509 -3.54 <0.001 0.10
CHAQ38CATII -0.12 (-1.7-1.76) 0.013 (-0.052-0.42) 3.78 (df 107) <0.001 403 -4.28 <0.001 0.25

CHAQ scores for patients and controls are shown as median and range. Relative efficiency is the ratio of squared t-statistic with the original CHAQ (chaq30orig) as reference.