Table 3.

Convergent validity of item selection for the Duke-PH scale.

Items	Item to scale correlations†
Money for basic needs	0.38*
Living conditions	0.42*
Support vs. stress	0.45*
Education	0.31*
Employment	0.24*
Discrimination	0.33*
Social interactions	0.29*
Perceived health	0.35*
Illness burden	0.47*
Health care quality	0.23*
Pain	0.38*
Depressed feelings	0.43*
Health care visits	0.19*
Health confinement	0.33*

n = 450.

^†Item remainder Spearman rank-order correlations between item and scale scores, after removing the index item score from the scale score (convergent validity).

^*p <0.001.