Table 4.
Internal consistency reliability and inter-factor correlation
| Caregiver FACT-G subdomain | Prostate cancer study (N = 263) | Advanced cancer study (N = 484) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cronbach's alpha | Inter-factor correlation | Cronbach's alpha | Inter-factor correlation | |||||||
| PW | SW | EW | FW | PW | SW | EW | FW | |||
| PW | 0.81 | 1.00 | 0.24*** | 0.33*** | 0.40*** | 0.83 | 1.00 | 0.26*** | 0.31*** | 0.48*** |
| SW | 0.82 | 0.24*** | 1.00 | 0.40*** | 0.51*** | 0.84 | 0.26*** | 1.00 | 0.38*** | 0.56*** |
| EW | 0.83 | 0.33*** | 0.40*** | 1.00 | 0.49** | 0.81 | 0.31*** | 0.38*** | 1.00 | 0.57*** |
| FW | 0.86 | 0.40*** | 0.51*** | 0.49*** | 1.00 | 0.84 | 0.48*** | 0.55*** | 0.57*** | 1.00 |
| Total score | 0.91 | 0.62*** | 0.74*** | 0.76*** | 0.83*** | 0.91 | 0.63*** | 0.76*** | 0.75*** | 0.87*** |
FACT-G Function Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General, PW physical well-being, SW social well-being, EW emotional well-being, FW functional well-being
**p < .001; ***p < .0001