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. 2010 Apr 17;19(6):887–897. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9649-x

Table 4.

Convergent validity: Spearman rank Correlation between EQ-5D-Y and KIDSCREEN, general health and life satisfaction scores (significant correlations are given in bold)

Germany (n = 756a) South Africa (n = 258a) Spain (n = 973a) Sweden (n = 407a)
KIDSCREEN-10-HRQOL-index
 Mobility (walking about) −0.14 −0.27 0.04 −0.17
 Looking after myself 0.03 0.08 0.01 −0.13
 Doing usual activities −0.13 −0.32 −0.10 −0.19
 Having pain or discomfort −0.28 −0.39 −0.15 −0.30
 Feeling worried, sad or unhappy −0.45 −0.45 −0.14 −0.46
 VASb 0.33 0.54 0.43 0.48
KIDSCREEN-27 physical well-being
 Mobility (walking about) −0.10 −0.25 −0.08 −0.15
 Looking after myself 0.00 0.03 −0.05 −0.08
 Doing usual activities −0.09 −0.21 −0.09 −0.17
 Having pain or discomfort −0.27 −0.26 −0.18 −0.22
 Feeling worried, sad or unhappy −0.27 −0.29 −0.23 −0.34
 VASb 0.33 0.55 0.46 0.47
KIDSCREEN-27 psychological well-being
 Mobility (walking about) −0.10 −0.21 −0.10 −0.10
 Looking after myself 0.04 0.06 −0.04 −0.08
 Doing usual activities −0.09 −0.17 −0.14 −0.18
 Having pain or discomfort −0.28 −0.34 −0.23 −0.27
 Feeling worried, sad or unhappy −0.46 −0.52 −0.41 −0.49
 VASb 0.33 0.48 0.21 0.48
Self-rated general health itemc
 Mobility (walking about) 0.13 0.02 −0.01 0.15
 Looking after myself −0.04 −0.09 0.01 0.06
 Doing usual activities 0.08 0.27 0.14 0.14
 Having pain or discomfort 0.36 0.26 0.21 0.25
 Feeling worried, sad or unhappy 0.26 0.25 0.20 0.42
 VASb −0.46 −0.56 −0.50 −0.51
Life satisfaction ladder
 Mobility (walking about) −0.07 −0.14 −0.12 −0.10
 Looking after myself 0.01 −0.01 0.01 −0.01
 Doing usual activities −0.05 −0.17 −0.10 −0.10
 Having pain or discomfort −0.20 −0.15 −0.18 −0.19
 Feeling worried, sad or unhappy −0.32 −0.26 −0.31 −0.37
 VASb 0.36 0.51 0.54 0.45

aMissing values were excluded casewise

bPearson correlation coefficient

cIn Italy (n = 415), Spearman rank correlations of the General Health Item with the EQ-5D-Y descriptive system were for mobility ρ = 0.15, ‘looking after myself’ ρ = 0.04, ‘doing usual activities’ ρ = 0.18, ‘having pain and discomfort’ ρ = 0.17, ‘feeling worried, sad and unhappy’ ρ = 0.20; Pearson correlation coefficient with the VAS was r = − 0.52