Psychometrics of the chronic liver disease questionnaire for Southern Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Table 5 Reliability and correlations of the Chinese (HK) CLDQ and SF-36v2 health survey scores

	AS	FA	SS	AC	EF	WO	Cronbach’s α	ICC1
CLDQ
AS							0.84	0.58
FA	0.54						0.88	0.82
SS	0.54	0.72					0.74	0.86
AC	0.5.0	0.67	0.60				0.72	0.66
EF	0.58	0.72	0.68	0.61			0.90	0.86
WO	0.52	0.57	0.60	0.58	0.69		0.90	0.89
Overall	0.72	0.87	0.84	0.80	0.86	0.81	0.90	0.85
SF-36v2 Health Survey
PF	0.47	0.56	0.65	0.54	0.47	0.46	0.81	0.93
RP	0.56	0.72	0.70	0.67	0.60	0.62	0.91	0.90
BP	0.44	0.44	0.62	0.42	0.48	0.44	0.89	0.77
GH	0.46	0.66	0.56	0.57	0.60	0.62	0.82	0.89
VT	0.51	0.79	0.63	0.58	0.67	0.54	0.86	0.85
SF	0.44	0.56	0.52	0.60	0.58	0.52	0.88	0.54
RE	0.53	0.51	0.52	0.46	0.66	0.50	0.89	0.74
MH	0.41	0.58	0.49	0.49	0.78	0.61	0.84	0.89

¹All analyses were performed with the total sample of 150 patients, except for the Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC), which was based on the results from 46 uncomplicated CHB patients.