Table 1.
Summary of the themes generated from the focus group discussions of aspects currently not covered in the WHOQOL.
Themes are listed in alphabetical order.
Table 2.
The final list of 24 facets to be tested further.
On the left-hand side are the QOL facets worded as importance items, which were used in Study 2. On the right-hand side are newly worded WHOQOL questions to be tested for their psychometric properties in Study 3.
Table 3.
National item means and correlations (Pearson’s r) with criterion variables, namely total QOL score, g facet (sum of the global QOL and health items), global QOL item, global health item, and parent domain total).
The parent domain was the psychological domain for items N3, N11, N16, and N21 and the social domain for N9. The item to parent domain coefficients were calculated with domain scores when the national items had not been added.
Table 4.
Converting from ordinal- to interval-level scores for the four subscales of the New Zealand version of the WHOQOL-BREF (including and excluding optional New Zealand national items).