Table 1. Cronbach's α scores for each subsection of the inventory for the control and clinical cohorts.
Subsection | No. of questions | Cronbach's α-controls | Cronbach's α-patients |
---|---|---|---|
1. Visual fields | 13 | 0.91 | 0.81 |
2. Perception of movement | 5 | 0.95 | 0.81 |
3. Search | 9 | 0.98 | 0.71 |
4. Guidance of movement | 11 | 0.68 | 0.77 |
5. Attention | 4 | 0.98 | 0.56a |
6. Crowded scenes | 4 | 1.0 | 0.82 |
7. Recognition and navigation | 7 | 1.0 | 0.77 |
Scores below 0.7 suggest more than one trait is being investigated by the questions in the subsection, whereas scores above 0.9 suggest redundancy, with questions investigating the same traits.
This value became 0.79 on removal of two redundant questions. Within the control group, there was a high degree of redundancy (α values >0.9) for all sections, except for guidance of movement.