Table 1.

Reliability and correlation of the SF-36 dimensions.

Dimension	Item Number	Reliability		Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient
		Split-Half Reliability	Cronbach’s α Coefficient	PCS	MCS
PF	10	0.894	0.813	0.481	0.240
RP	4	0.877	0.864	0.863	0.444
BP	2	0.897	0.879	0.706	0.328
GH	5	0.851	0.839	0.740	0.472
VT	4	0.841	0.713	0.362	0.716
SF	2	0.516	0.481	0.452	0.691
RE	3	0.846	0.839	0.414	0.867
MH	5	0.829	0.770	0.393	0.754