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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Feb;46(2):211–218. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182a65c73

Table 3. Measured versus Self-Reported Physical Function.

SF-36 (Physical Function) versus Six minute walk
Reported function Measure function Sensitivity1 Specificity1 Accuracy + Predictive Value Kappa
(95% CI)
Poor Good
Overall Poor 65 186 0.59 0.89 0.87 0.26 0.30 (0.23-0.36)
Good 46 1481
Females Poor 34 104 0.58 0.88 0.86 0.25 0.28 (0.19-0.37)
Good 25 740
Males Poor 31 82 0.60 0.90 0.88 0.27 0.32 (0.22-0.42)
Good 21 741
Bone Cancer Poor 11 13 0.55 0.88 0.83 0.46 0.40 (0.19-0.60)
Good 9 95
CNS tumorˆ Poor 11 20 0.85 0.84 0.84 0.35 0.43 (0.24-0.61)
Good 2 108
Leukemia Poor 17 73 0.46 0.90 0.88 0.19 0.22 (0.11-0.32)
Good 20 695
Lymphoma Poor 10 48 0.50 0.84 0.82 0.17 0.18 (0.05-0.31)
Good 10 253
Other Cancer Poor 16 32 0.76 0.91 0.90 0.33 0.42 (0.27-0.57)
Good 5 330

SF-36 (Physical Function) versus PPT

Overall Poor 34 217 0.69 0.87 0.87 0.14 0.19 (0.13-0.25)
Good 15 1512
Females Poor 19 119 0.76 0.86 0.86 0.14 0.20 (0.11-0.28)
Good 6 759
Males Poor 15 98 0.63 0.88 0.88 0.13 0.18 (0.09-0.27)
Good 9 753
Bone Cancer Poor 2 22 0.67 0.82 0.80 0.08 0.11 (-0.05-0.27)
Good 1 103
CNS tumorˆ Poor 12 19 0.67 0.85 0.82 0.39 0.39 (0.20-0.58)
Good 6 104
Leukemia Poor 12 78 0.80 0.90 0.90 0.13 0.20 (0.10-0.30)
Good 3 712
Lymphoma Poor 3 55 0.75 0.83 0.83 0.05 0.08 (-0.01-0.16)
Good 1 262
Other Cancer Poor 5 43 0.56 0.89 0.88 0.10 0.14 (0.01-0.27)
Good 4 331
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Sensitivity and specificity assume the PPT and 6MW are gold standard.

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Central nervous system tumor