Consequences of screening in cervical cancer: development and dimensionality of a questionnaire

Brodersen, John; Siersma, Volkert; Thorsen, Hanne

doi:10.1186/s40359-018-0251-2

Table 5 Summary of result from the psychometric analyses of part 2 of the COS-CC

From: Consequences of screening in cervical cancer: development and dimensionality of a questionnaire

The items of part I of the COS-LC in order of appearance in the questionnaire	Subscales and misfit	Observed	Expected	Gamma Sd	Item difficulty	Probability of fit to the Rasch model
1. broader aspects of life	Existential values	0.731	0.830	0.055	−0.66	0.07071
2. enjoyment of life	Existential values	0.819	0.836	0.074	14.02	0.82062
3. anxiety about cervical cancer	Cervical cancer	0.266	0.270	0.139	0.44	0.97745
4. relaxed	Relaxed/calm	0.562	0.525	0.118	0.23	0.74978
5. family	Social relations	0.778	0.849	0.066	−1.13	0.16247
6. friends	Social relations	0.947	0.802	0.061	−0.38	0.07890
7. other people	Social relations	0.918	0.881	0.062	1.51	0.51973
8. calm	Relaxed/calm	0.504	0.453	0.148	−0.04	0.72928
9. thought about future	Existential values	0.815	0.834	0.071	14.02	0.79353
10. well-being	Existential values	0.811	0.834	0.071	14.02	0.75552
11. awareness of life	Existential values	0.862	0.821	0.058	0.25	0.48193
12. value life	Existential values	0.941	0.824	0.060	0.42	0.05019
13. not cervical cancer	Cervical cancer	0.266	0.270	0.139	−0.44	0.97745
14. energy	Impulsivity	0.768	0.869	0.065	−0.55	0.11894
15. responsibility for one’s family	Empathy	0.799	0.867	0.071	0.33	0.33944
16. lived life to the full	Impulsivity	0.845	0.855	0.068	0.40	0.87765
17. relieved	Relaxed/calm	0.439	0.518	0.116	−0.21	0.49453
18. understand other people’s problems	Empathy	0.912	0.880	0.060	−0.51	0.59919
19. being impulsive	Impulsivity	0.918	0.858	0.069	−0.02	0.38448
20. ability to listen to other people’s problems	Empathy	0.880	0.870	0.065	0.18	0.88236
21. desire to venture into something new	Impulsivity	0.918	0.866	0.058	0.08	0.37147
22. desire to venture into something risky	Impulsivity	0.847	0.855	0.071	0.46	0.91448
23. done some things that overstepped one’s bounds	Impulsivity	0.856	0.862	0.065	−0.37	0.92278

Adjusting the p-values in the table in order to control the false discovery rate and so avoid spurious significant results due to multiple testing suggested that this result should be regarded as insignificant [23]

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