Table 4 . Pearson’s correlation coefficient between SF-36 and QOLRAD.

QOLRAD
	Instruments	Emotional distress	Sleep disturbance	Food/drink problems	Physical/social functioning	Vitality
SF-36	Bodily pain	0.51*	0.40*	0.44*	0.59*	0.52*
	General health	0.53*	0.19	0.45*	0.43*	0.28
	Mental health	0.51*	0.11	0.28	0.43*	0.26
	Physical	0.68*	0.45*	0.59*	1.00*	0.74*
	functioning
	Role-emotional	0.38*	-0.04	0.27	0.29*	019
	Role-physical	0.38*	0.05	0.35*	0.58*	0.34*
	Social	0.49*	0.12	0.33*	0.61*	0.39*
	functioning
	Vitality	0.68*	0.11	0.49*	0.58*	0.39*
	PCS	0.43*	0.15	0.40*	0.68*	0.38*
	MCS	0.58*	0.08	0.42*	0.53*	0.31*
General symptom score (GSS)		0.04	-0.36	-0.19	-0.18	-0.30

*Coefficients are significant at p<0.03.