Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of the quality of communication questionnaire

BMC Palliative Care

Table 5 Convergent and discriminant validity

	C-QOC Summary score		General communication skills		Communication about illness trajectory		End-of-life care planning
	Spearman’s r	P-value	Spearman’s r	P-value	Spearman’s r	P-value	Spearman’s r	P-value
Overall quality of clinician communication	.467	< 0.001	.732	< 0.001	.411	< 0.001	.226	0.004
Clinician comfort in discussing dying	.634	< 0.001	.509	< 0.001	.457	< 0.001	.555	< 0.001
	Mean	P-value¹	Mean	P-value¹	Mean	P-value¹	Mean	P-value¹
Information type preferences		0.504		0.952		0.369		0.749
Only the necessary	6.08		9.21		5.32		3.21
Good news only	5.40		8.53		3.80		3.41
All information	6.04		8.90		5.16		3.75

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