Table 6.

Convergent and Discriminant Validity for the TBI-CareQOL Military Health Care Frustration Item Bank

	Convergent Validity (strong relationships)				Convergent Validity (moderate relationships)		Discriminant Validity
TBI-CareQOL Military Health Care Frustration Administration Format	Please rate your anger with the services that the person you care for receives from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) health care system.	Please rate your anger with the services that the person you care for receives from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system.	Please rate your anger with the services that you receive from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system.	Please rate your anger with the services that you receive from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) health care system.	CAS Burden	PROMIS Anger	CAS Satisfaction	CAS Ideology	CAS Mastery
CAT	0.67	0.6	0.57	0.66	−0.47	0.49	−0.22	0.03	−0.32
6-item SF - Self	0.74	0.77	0.68	0.74	−0.6	0.53	−0.26	0.1	−0.4
6-item SF - Person w/ TBI	0.78	0.73	0.65	0.84	−0.56	0.54	−0.28	0.02	−0.36
Mean (SD)	2.4 (1.4)	2.8 (1.6)	2.6 (1.3)	3.0 (1.5)	39.5 (12.5)	53.9 (10.0)	43.8 (6.0)	14.7 (3.6)	13.6 (2.8)