. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 8.

Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Sep 5;22(1):104–111. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.08.040

Table 2.

Characteristics of the Outlook Scale, Transplant Difficult and Health Worse Subscales, and Individual Outlook Items

	N	N Missing	CC	Mean	SD	Maximum
Transplant Difficult subscale^*	363	0		64.4	25.6	100
Transplant will be difficult for my child.	362	1	0.66	66.8	26.9	100
Transplant will be difficult for me.	363	0	0.66	70.0	29.4	100
Health Worse subscale^*	363	0		40.7	25.7	100
My child’s future health will be worse than it is now.	363	0	0.55	39.6	29	100
My child might die.	363	0	0.55	41.9	28.2	100
Parent Outlook Scale (a ¼ 0.75)^*	363	0		52.5	21.7	100

CC indicates the Pearson correlation coefficient for items within a subscale.

Parents rated the frequency of their thoughts on a 5-point Likert scale, with response options of “1, none of the time”; “2, a little of the time”; “3, some of the time”; “4, most of the time”; and “5, all of the time.” Mean raw scale and subscale scores (range, 1–5) were computed and converted to a 100-point scale (with higher values representing greater frequency of thoughts).

Higher scores reflect greater frequency of parent thoughts about the potential difficulty of the transplantation course or their child’s worsened future health.