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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Dermatol. 2020 Sep 3;184(4):681–687. doi: 10.1111/bjd.19344

Table 2.

Reliability and convergent validity of the PtGA item

Test-retest
reliability
ICC (95%CI)
Overall 0.84 (0.80, 0.87)
Country
 Denmark 0.88 (0.83, 0.91)
 US 0.81 (0.79, 0.87)
Sex
 Female 0.84 (0.79, 0.87)
 Male 0.84 (0.73, 0.92)
Age Group
 ≤20 1.00 (1.00, 1.00)
 21-30 0.81 (0.71, 0.88)
 31-40 0.87 (0.80, 0.92)
 41-50 0.85 (0.77, 0.90)
 51-60 0.82 (0.70, 0.89)
 61-70 0.84 (0.64 0.94)
 71-80 0.93 (0.68, 0.99)
Race
 White 0.82 (0.76, 0.87)
 Asian NC
 Black 0.77 (0.61, 0.88)
 North American NC
Indian NC
 Hispanic/Latino NC
 Mixed NC
 Other
Convergent validity Spearman correlation (95%CI)
Overall US DK
DLQI 0.78 (0.74, 0.82) 0.72 (0.64,0.77) 0.85 (0.81,0.89)
HiSQOL 0.82 (0.78,0.85) 0.76 (0.69,0.81) 0.88 (0.84,0.90)
HADS
Anxiety 0.55 (0.48, 0.61) 0.52 (0.41,0.68) 0.58 (0.48,0.66)
Depression 0.53 (0.48, 0.59) 0.57 (0.48,0.66) 0.48 (0.37,0.58)
NRS for pain 0.66 (0.60, 0.71) 0.60 (0.51,0.68) 0.72 (0.65,0.78)