Table 5.
Reliability of the QOLIBRI: Comparison of the CENTER-TBI results with the values from the original English validation study in the field of TBI.
QOLIBRI | Scale | CENTER-TBI 1 | Original English Version 2 | ||||||||
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Dutch | English | Finnish | French | German | Italian | Norwegian | Spanish | Swedish | TBI | ||
N | - | 583 | 224 | 207 | 104 | 77 | 271 | 247 | 255 | 57 | 97 |
Cronbach’s alpha | Cognition | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.92 |
Self | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.90 | |
Daily life | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.93 | |
Social | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.87 | 0.88 | 0.84 | 0.84 | 0.76 | 0.88 | |
Emotions | 0.87 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.85 | 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.88 | |
Physical | 0.79 | 0.79 | 0.79 | 0.81 | 0.76 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.84 | 0.75 | 0.80 | |
Total | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.95 | 0.97 | |
N | - | 583 | 224 | 207 | 104 | 77 | 271 | 247 | 255 | 57 | 56 |
Split-half or test–retest reliability 3 | Cognition | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.80 |
Self | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.96 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 0.83 | |
Daily life | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.96 | 0.77 | |
Social | 0.88 | 0.91 | 0.86 | 0.95 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.79 | |
Emotions | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.76 | |
Physical | 0.78 | 0.76 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.83 | 0.88 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 0.77 | 0.83 | |
Total | 0.97 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.98 | 0.88 |
Note. 1 Reliability coefficients (CENTER-TBI study sample). 2 Reliability coefficients (original English validation of the QOLIBRI in a TBI sample [32]). 3 Split-half reliability (CENTER-TBI data), test–retest reliability (original study); N = number of cases; values in bold represent at least satisfactory reliability (≥0.70).