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Table 5 Correlations between sum scores of SOS-V (sub)scales with patient with patient's general feeling of suffering and sum score of the QLQ C-30; first interviews with patients in general practice with incurable cancer with a life-expectancy of 6 months or less (Spearman R, n = 64)*

From: Unbearability of suffering at the end of life: the development of a new measuring device, the SOS-V

 

Overall Questions on suffering of the SOS-V

QLQ C-30

 

Extent of suffering

Unbearability of suffering

Hopelessness of suffering

Sum Score

SOS-V

(sub)scale

a. Aspect present?

b.

Suffering Unbearable?

a. Aspect present?

b.

Suffering Unbearable?

a. Aspect present?

b.

Suffering Unbearable?

a.

Aspect present?

b.

Suffering Unbearable?

Domain I: Signs and symptoms

0.71‡

0.70‡

0.51‡

0.42‡

0.64‡

0.74‡

0.71‡

0.61‡

Domain II: Loss of functions

0.33†

0.43‡

0.34†

0.41‡

0.28†

0.52‡

0.64‡

0.54‡

Domain III: Personal aspects

0.64‡

0.62‡

0.53‡

0.58‡

0.64‡

0.70‡

0.36‡

0.38†

Domain IV: Aspects of social environment

0.35‡

0.30†

0.46‡

0.43‡

0.29†

0.24

0.17

0.15

Domain V: Nature and prognosis of disease

0.56‡

0.57‡

0.33†

0.27

0.70‡

0.73‡

0.23

0.30†

Total SOS-V

0.72‡

0.69‡

0.61‡

0.55‡

0.66‡

0.75‡

0.66‡

0.58‡

  1. * between 8 and 15 missing observations per correlation
  2. † significant p-value< 0.05
  3. ‡ significant p-value< 0.01