Research Article

The Development and Validation of a Measure of Health-Related Quality of Life for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—Lymphoma (FACT-Lym)

Table 3

Descriptive statistics at the baseline assessment for the FACT-Lym scales.

FACT scale or subscale
(number of items)
Means (SD)Cronbach’s alphaICC
Time 1 ( )Time 2 ( )Time 3 ( )Time 1 ( )Time 2 ( Time 3 ( )

Physical (7)23.3 (4.2)21.9 (5.0)22.4 (5.0)0.820.820.85.65
Social/family (7)23.5 (4.7)22.9 (4.7)23.5 (4.7)0.840.780.84.61
Emotional (6)18.8 (3.8)19.5 (3.5)19.3 (3.6)0.700.740.80.77
Functional (7)20.3 (5.7)19.3 (6.0)19.3 (5.8)0.870.890.89.85
Lymphoma (15)47.6 (7.8)47.9 (8.8)48.6 (7.8)0.790.850.84.84
TOI (29)91.2 (15.4)89.0 (17.9)90.2 (17.3)0.910.930.94.87
FACT-G (27)86.0 (13.5)83.5 (14.6)84.5 (15.2)0.870.900.94.84
FACT-Lym (42)133.6 (19.9)131.4 (22.4)133.1 (22.0)0.900.930.95.87