TEFTOM: A Promising General Trauma Expectation/Outcome Measure—Results of a Validation Study on Pan-American Ankle and Distal Tibia Trauma Patients

Table 4

TEF internal consistency and reproducibility.

	Internal consistency		Test-retest reliability (reproducibility)
	𝑛	Cronbach’s alpha	𝑛^∗	ICC
Preoperative	200	0.69		—^†
Postoperative	193	0.69	70	0.80
2 weeks	160	0.74	67	0.67
6 weeks	158	0.76	56	0.88
3 months	152	0.76	50	0.77
6 months	134	0.65	44	0.94

ICC: intraclass correlation coefficient; TEF: trauma expectation factor; TOM: trauma outcome measure.
^∗Number of subjects who volunteered to participate in the reliability assessment of the TEF questionnaire.
^†No reliability assessment was performed on preoperative scores.