Table 1.

Psychometric properties of the psychosocial adjustment status questionnaires among 15 children in the pre-pilot phase

	Inter-rater reliabilitya	Test-retest reliabilityb	Internal consistencyc
	ICC	ICC	Cronbach's α
Depressive symptom score	0.37	0.48	0.63
Distress score	0.62	0.76	0.72
Hopelessness	0.13	0.22	0.81
Positive outlook	0.30	<0.2	0.53
Area-specific self-esteem
Peer esteem	0.21	0.35	0.68
Home/family esteem	0.30	0.51	0.68
School esteem	0.45	0.63	0.77
Global self-esteem	0.32	0.53	0.82

ICC=intra class correlation.

^aICC≥0.81 (very good); 0.61≤ICC<0.8 (good); 0.41≤ICC<0.6 (moderate); 0.21≤ICC<0.4 (fair); ICC<0.2 (poor).

^bICC>0.75 (excellent); 0.40≤ICC≤0.75 (fair to good); ICC<0.4 (poor).

^cα≥0.9 (excellent); 0.7≤α<0.9 (good); 0.6≤ α<0.7 (acceptable); 0.5≤α<0.6 (poor); α<0.5 (unacceptable).