The Swedish RAND-36 Health Survey - reliability and responsiveness assessed in patient populations using Svensson’s method for paired ordinal data

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 8 Responsiveness analysis using Svensson’s method for ordinal paired data for the Cardiac rehabilitation patients

RAND-36 subscales	PA	RP	SE	95% CI		RC	SE	95% CI		RV	SE	95% CI
Physical functioning	13%	0.31	0.05	0.21	0.41	−0.15	0.08	−0.31	0.00	0.28	0.06	0.16	0.40
Role functioning/ physical	45%	0.24	0.07	0.10	0.38	0.18	008	0.03	0.32	0.21	0.06	0.08	0.33
Pain	19%	0.30	0.06	0.17	0.42	0.17	0.09	0.01	0.34	0.41	0.08	0.26	0.57
General health	19%	0.10	0.06	−0.01	0.21	−0.01	0.07	−0.14	0.13	0.30	0.08	0.15	0.45
Energy/fatigue	10%	0.26	0.05	0.15	0.37	0.00	0.08	−0.16	0.16	0.26	0.06	0.15	0.37
Social functioning	34%	0.32	0.05	0.21	0.42	0.02	0.08	−0.12	0.17	0.23	0.06	0.11	0.35
Role functioning/ emotional	51%	0.03	0.07	−0.10	0.16	0.05	0.06	−0.06	0.17	0.18	0.06	0.07	0.29
Emotional well-being	13%	0.17	0.05	0.08	0.26	0.04	0.07	−0.10	0.18	0.22	0.05	0.11	0.32

SE Standard Error, CI Confidential Interval, PA Percentage Agreement, RP Relative Position (−1/+ 1), RC Relative Concentration, (−1/+ 1) RV Relative Rank Variation (0–1). Significant values are given in bold