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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Diabetes. 2018 Jul 3;19(7):1322–1330. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12713

TABLE 2.

PedsQL diabetes symptoms summary score, diabetes management summary score and facets bivariate intercorrelations with the generic core scales total scale score in adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes

Diabetes symptoms and management summary scores and facets Items α Mean SD r*a r*b r*c
Diabetes symptoms summary score 15 0.89 64.90 15.95 0.67
Diabetes management summary score 18 0.89 78.89 15.07 0.62 0.63
Perceived treatment adherence barriers 7 0.80 85.21 13.89 0.51 0.82 0.56
Procedural pain 2 0.78 84.06 19.19 0.30 0.46 0.34
Social embarrassment 3 0.83 84.77 18.51 0.33 0.64 0.39
Diabetes worry 3 0.69 67.91 19.96 0.34 0.46 0.28
Health communication 2 0.87 84.86 20.54 0.45 0.63 0.49
Generic core total scale score 23 0.92 82.33 13.53

α, Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency reliability; r, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient; dash line, not applicable. Effect sizes for Pearson r designated as small (0.10), medium (0.30), and large (0.50) in magnitude. Lower scores demonstrate worse symptoms and more problems.

*

All Ps < 0.001.

a

Bivariate correlations with the diabetes symptoms summary score.

b

Bivariate correlations with the diabetes management summary score.

c

Bivariate correlations with the generic core scales total scale score.