Table 4.

Reliability for Mandarin Chinese FACE-Q scales.

FACE-Q Scales	Cronbach's Alpha	Cronbach's Alpha if item deleteda	Inter-item correlation coefficients	Item-total correlation coefficients
Appearance appraisal scales
Facial appearance overall	0.94	0.91–0.96	0.42–0.49	0.73–0.82
Cheeks	0.90	0.88–0.93	0.43–0.47	0.67–0.75
Cheekbones	0.88	0.84–0.91	0.40–0.43	0.59–0.67
Chin	0.93	0.90–0.94	0.43–0.46	0.72–0.79
Under chin	0.91	0.87–0.93	0.41–0.47	0.68–0.73
Lower face and jawline	0.93	0.86–0.95	0.42–0.45	0.70–0.81
Nose	0.93	0.89–0.95	0.44–0.48	0.67–0.77
Nostrils	0.91	0.90–0.94	0.42–0.46	0.69–0.80
Lips	0.92	0.87–0.93	0.40–0.46	0.54–0.68
Quality-of-life scales
Social function	0.91	0.87–0.93	0.45–0.48	0.63–0.75
Psychological well-being	0.93	0.90–0.95	0.42–0.47	0.69–0.77
Early life impact	0.86	0.82–0.89	0.40–0.44	0.56–0.63
Patient experience scales
Outcome	0.90	0.88–0.91	0.41–0.46	0.64–0.79
Decision	0.92	0.90–0.94	0.43–0.45	0.58–0.70
Medical team	0.89	0.86–0.92	0.40–0.46	0.59–0.72
Office staff	0.90	0.88–0.93	0.44–0.47	0.60–0.71
Surgeon	0.93	0.89–0.95	0.42–0.46	0.62–0.75

^aIndicates internal consistency of remaining items if the elected item was deleted from the total score.