Table 4.

Assessment of convergent and discriminant validity of NVSA^© Scores with the KDQOL-36:™ Week 1

	ConvergentValidity	Discriminant Validity
NVSA©	KDQOL-36™ Nausea Bothersomeness	KDQOL-36™ Shortness of Breath	KDQOL-36™ Faintness
Number of Days of Vomiting or Nausea	s = 0.65 p = <  0.0001	s = 0.19 p = 0.09	s = 0.26 p = 0.02
Number of Vomiting Episodes	s = 0.38 p = 0.0004	s = 0.09 p = 0.43	s = 0.21 p = 0.06
Mean Severity of Nausea	s = 0.67 p = <  0.0001	s = 0.06 p = 0.15	s = 0.31 p = 0.005

s = Spearman correlation