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Table 4.

Actual and hypothesised correlations of factors with comparator PROMs

		Health and wellbeing	Health knowledge and self-care	Confidence in health provision	Confidence in health plan
Hypothesised correlations	EQ-5D	+ve (high)^a			+ve (moderate)^b
	IPQ	−ve (high/moderate)^a,b	−ve (moderate)^b		−ve (moderate)^b
	PAM-13		+ve (moderate)^b
	Last appointment score		+ve (moderate)^b	+ve (high)^a	+ve (moderate)^b
	Recommend GP item			+ve (high)^a
	Support for LTCs				+ve (moderate)^b
	Change in main problem	Correlations above 0.4 not expected
Actual correlations	EQ-5D	0.75^d	0.23^d	0.10	0.54^d
	IPQ	−0.69^d	−0.33^d	−0.19^c	−0.50^d
	PAM-13	0.28^d	0.44^d	0.30^d	0.25^d
	Last appointment score	0.19^c	0.44^d	0.62^d	0.26^d
	Recommend GP item	0.12^c	0.39^d	0.53^d	0.14^c
	Support for LTCs	0.42^d	0.29^d	0.17^d	0.52^d
	Change in main problem	0.32^d	0.32^d	0.27^d	0.21^c

Bold entries show hypothesis.

High = ≥0.6.

Moderate = ≥0.4.

P<0.05.

P<0.001. EQ-5D = European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions. IPQ = Illness Perception Questionnaire. LTC = long-term condition. PAM-13 = Patient Activation Measure (13-item version). PROM = Patient Reported Outcome Measure.