POS item | Patients (N) | Weighted Cohen’s Kappa (kw) for grouped scores (3 Categories) | Significance level (kw) | Interpretation (kw)a | Spearman’s correlation coefficient (rs) for grouped scores (3 Categories) | Significance level (rs) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pain | 58 | 0.259 | .007** | Fair | 0.357 | .006** |
2 | Other symptoms | 57 | 0.252 | .013* | Fair | 0.271 | .041* |
3 | Patient anxiety | 56 | 0.093 | .347 | Slight | 0.179 | .186 |
4 | Family anxiety | 57 | 0.218 | .019* | Fair | 0.314 | .018* |
5 | Information | 57 | -0.098 | .200 | Poor | -0.185 | .167 |
6 | Support | 57 | -0.038 | .709 | Poor | -0.023 | .863 |
7 | Life worthwhile | 57 | 0.065 | .531 | Slight | 0.141 | .300 |
8 | Self-worth | 56 | 0.122 | .251 | Slight | 0.205 | .144 |
9 | Wasted timeb | 58 | 0.000 | Â | Slight | n.a. | n.a. |
10 | Personal affairs | 48 | 0.114 | .324 | Slight | 0.155 | .293 |