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Table 5 Sensitivity to change on QLQ-COMU26 scales and individual items for patient subgroups

From: An international field study for the reliability and validity of the EORTC communication questionnaire EORTC QLQ-COMU26

  1. Patient sub-groups according to item 26: patients whose satisfaction with communication worsened, patients whose satisfaction with communication remained stable, patients whose satisfaction with communication improved
  2. Highlighted in bold: statistically significant comparisons
  3. Highlighted in green: improvements
  4. Highlighted in red: deteriorations
  5. Sensitivity to change of the QLQ-COMU26 scores, using Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test
  6. Effect size: Cohen’s D
  7. Cohen’s 3 cut-off points (Cohen J. (1988))
  8. 1. Small: from 0.2
  9. 2. Medium: from 0.5
  10. 3. Wide: from 0.8
  11. *Negative values indicate deteriorations
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