Table 4.

Descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s alpha and ICC of the MEQ subscales

Subscales	Cronbach’s alpha
	Alpha of subscales in English version	Alpha of subscales with one item Exchangeda	Mean ± SD	ICC (95% confidence interval)
Awareness	(0.74)7 items	0.81	7 3.10 ± 0.32	0.73*
Disinhibition	(0.83)8 items	0.751 (7 items)	2.64 ± 0.54	0.77*
Emotional response	(0.71)4 items	0.818	3.27 ± 0.32	0.82*
External cues	(0.70)6 items	0.732 (7 items)	3.57 ± 0.56	0.91*
Distraction	(0.64)3 items	0.769	2.39 ± 0.45	0.88*

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*P-value < 0.05