Development and Validation of the Quality-of-Life Assessment System for Lung Cancer Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Table 2

Correlation coefficients among items and domains of QLASTCM-Lu (𝑛=240).

Items	Unity of the body and spirit	Correspondence between man and universe	Lung cancer-specific module	General module	Total score
T1	0.74	0.26	0.63	0.64	0.67
T2	0.81	0.39	0.72	0.75	0.78
T3	0.72	0.40	0.65	0.68	0.71
T4	0.72	0.24	0.62	0.62	0.65
T5	0.71	0.24	0.66	0.62	0.66
T6	0.54	0.19	0.46	0.47	0.49
T7	0.54	0.10	0.48	0.43	0.47
T8	0.55	0.22	0.44	0.49	0.50
T9	0.58	0.27	0.50	0.53	0.55
T10	0.57	0.33	0.44	0.55	0.55
T11	0.56	0.28	0.52	0.52	0.55
T12	0.65	0.33	0.55	0.61	0.62
T13	0.69	0.32	0.52	0.63	0.63
T15	0.68	0.19	0.53	0.57	0.59
T16	0.39	0.08	0.30	0.31	0.32
T17	0.67	0.23	0.61	0.58	0.62
T18	0.32	0.57	0.20	0.47	0.42
T19	0.50	0.63	0.30	0.62	0.56
T20	0.68	0.39	0.53	0.65	0.65
T21	0.64	0.37	0.52	0.61	0.62
T22	0.75	0.45	0.59	0.73	0.73
T23	0.74	0.42	0.61	0.71	0.71
T24	0.73	0.44	0.60	0.71	0.72
T28	0.30	0.65	0.25	0.48	0.44
T32	0.04	0.41	0.03	0.20	0.15
T33	0.37	0.79	0.24	0.59	0.52
T34	0.43	0.67	0.39	0.59	0.56
T35	0.44	0.75	0.40	0.62	0.59
T36	0.54	0.73	0.46	0.69	0.66
T37	0.43	0.77	0.31	0.63	0.57
T38	0.08	0.64	0.05	0.32	0.24
T39	0.09	0.56	0.01	0.30	0.24
T40	0.23	0.70	0.11	0.46	0.39
T41	0.61	0.34	0.57	0.58	0.61
F1	0.66	0.32	0.74	0.61	0.68
F2	0.65	0.34	0.73	0.61	0.67
F3	0.63	0.36	0.73	0.60	0.67
F4	0.50	0.36	0.66	0.51	0.58
F5	0.45	0.26	0.59	0.43	0.50
F6	0.54	0.18	0.64	0.46	0.53
F7	0.61	0.28	0.70	0.55	0.62
F8	0.47	0.09	0.58	0.38	0.45
F9	0.43	0.17	0.55	0.38	0.44
F11	0.51	0.24	0.65	0.46	0.53
F12	0.35	0.09	0.46	0.29	0.35
F13	0.49	0.28	0.55	0.47	0.51

*Correlations between each item and its designated scale are in bold type.