Research Article

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Multimorbidity in Primary Care: An Indian Experience

Table 5

Measures of reliability (test-retest reliability) for different domains of MAQ-PC.

DomainsTest
Mean [SD]
Retest
Mean [SD]
value of the differenceICC

Chronic conditions1031.61 [0.86]1.60 [0.82]0.9320.970
 Depression1031.92 [0.88]1.86 [0.84]0.6170.817
Health care utilization
 Frequency of hospital visits in last one year1030.98 [1.46]0.96 [1.42]0.9200.822
 Frequency of inpatient admission in last one year1030.30 [0.61]0.33 [0.62]0.7260.881
 Number of medicines taken1030.46 [0.79]0.49 [0.78]0.7840.841
Health related quality of life
 Self-rated overall health1033.53 [0.68]3.41 [0.72]0.2200.741
 SF-12 MCS10344.25 [9.64]43.95 [9.67]0.8230.893
 SF-12 PCS10343.57 [4.72]43.61 [5.12]0.9530.912
Severity of the disease
 Limitation in activities due to health problems1037.00 [5.93]6.89 [5.60]0.8910.903
Multimorbidity (%)10323.0323.010.8970.963

Interclass correlation.