Table 2.

Correlations among communication-related items.

	1	2	3	4
1. Difficulty with telephone use (SR)	-	.203**	.378**	.721**
2. Difficulty responding to questions (IR) b		-	.326**	.733**
3. Difficulty hearing (IR)			-	.729**
4. Communication difficulty score				-

IR = Interviewer reported.

SR = Self-reported.

^bThis item was reverse-coded so that higher scores indicated greater difficulty, consistent with the other items.

^**p < .001.