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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2016 Apr 1;25(10):2417–2427. doi: 10.1007/s11136-016-1273-y

Table 5.

Difficulty With Swallowing Short Form Summed Score to t Score Conversion Table

Difficulty With Swallowing
Summed Score t Score
6 41
7 49
8 51
9 53
10 54
11 55
12 56
13 57
14 58
15 59
16 60
17 61
18 62
19 63
20 63
21 64
22 65
23 66
24 67
25 68
26 69
27 71
28 73
29 77

Note. This table provides the conversion for HDQLIFE Difficulty with Speech Short Form total raw scores (i.e., summed score) to standardized t scores (with a mean of 50 and SD 10; i.e., t score). Higher scores indicate greater swallowing difficulty. Scores ≥ 60 indicate that the individual is functioning more poorly than 68.27% of people with HD and scores ≥ 70 indicate that the individual is functioning more poorly than 95.45% of individuals with HD.