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. 2018 Oct 3;10(10):1414. doi: 10.3390/nu10101414

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for the CDQ.

Characteristics Measure Emotional
(7–49)
Social
(7–49)
Worries
(5–35)
Score Mean ± SD 27.2 ± 9.6 36.1 ± 9.7 19.6 ± 6.1
95% CI (26.2–28.2) (34.9–37.3) (19.6–20.4)
Median 26.0 1 38.0 1 19.0 1
Min–max 7.0–49.0 8.0–49.0 6.0–35.0
25th–75th 22–33 29–45 14–24
Data quality Floor effect % 1 0 0
Ceiling effect % 1 20 2
Scaling assumptions Item internal consistency Item-scale correlation (corrected for overlap) 0.41–0.66 0.38–0.74 0.25–0.48
Pearson item-scale correlation ≥ 30% 2 100% 100% 80%
Internal consistency reliability Cronbach’s alpha 0.88 0.88 0.74

1 non-parametric distribution (verified using Shapiro-Wilk test—p ≤ 0.05); 2 according to Everitt & Skrondal [28].