Convergent validity was established by significant correlations between mobility and physical functioning, worries about the future and emotional functioning, and burden of illness and global health/QOL.
The interviewer posed questions about physical functioning and asked all participants ≥20 years old about difficulties doing certain physical tasks because of any long-term physical, mental, and emotional problems or illness and without the use of any special equipment.
Mary has learned everything there is to know about the physical functioning of the world; she knows everything about how sensation works from the neurophysiological perspective.
The PCS includes questions about physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health problems, bodily pain and general health.
The RAOS-child questionnaire consists of questions about physical functioning for three body parts: the knee, hip and ankle.
In the Physical Functioning scale, the item about vigorous activities (3D) had the lowest mean, and the item about milder activities (3J) had the highest mean.
Unlike the model presented in this paper, impacts on physical functioning, relationships, sleep, worry about the ability to conceive/have children, the impact of others' perceptions and the personal and broader economic burden are not shown in Gallop's model.
In addition, three indices [trial outcome index (TOI) [ 8], FACT Advanced Prostate Symptom Index (FAPSI) [ 9], and PCS pain-related score [ 8]] have been developed to capture the most relevant questions about physical functioning, prostate cancer symptoms, and pain.
The Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity (RAPA) was considered an indication of self-management for this study since it was postulated that patients in the intervention group might increase their level of physical activity as a result of increased awareness about physical functioning.
These scales were mobility (QLQ-ELD15) vs physical functioning (QLQ-C30), worries about the future (QLQ-ELD15) vs emotional functioning (QLQ-C30), maintaining autonomy and purpose (QLQ-ELD15) vs role functioning (QLQ-C30), and burden of illness (QLQ-ELD15) vs global health/QOL (QLQ-C30).
