Esthetic, Functional, and Everyday Life Assessment of Individuals with Cleft Lip and/or Palate
Table 3
Internal consistency of the answers of the UCLP + BCLP group for the three subscales of the questionnaire, measured by Cronbach’s , and influence of the deletion of each item by each subscale on Cronbach’s alpha values.
Subscale
Items
Cronbach’s alpha
Patients (if item deleted)
Parents (if item deleted)
Patients and parents mean (if item deleted)
Esthetics
All
0.827
0.773
0.818
1
0.858
0.742
0.809
2
0.787
0.705
0.777
3
0.769
0.757
0.799
4
0.765
0.728
0.744
5
0.779
0.724
0.780
Function
All
0.816
0.805
0.749
6
0.733
0.701
0.614
7
0.708
0.694
0.640
8
0.814
0.880
0.796
9
0.808
0.710
0.717
10
0.808
0.797
0.724
Everyday life
All
0.782
0.650
0.747
11
0.721
0.545
0.727
12
0.598
0.408
0.523
13
0.772
0.745
0.728
Cases where item deletion resulted in increased Cronbach’s alpha value of the corresponding subscale.
