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Table 2 Rasch analysis outcomes of person-item parameters for the Malay QIRC

From: The Quality of Life Impact Refractive Correction (QIRC) questionnaire: validation of the Malay-translated version of the QIRC using Rasch analysis

 

Malay QIRC

20-item Pilot

(N = 105)

19-item Final

(N = 304)

Parameters

Functional

Emotional

Functional

Emotional

Item

 Total

13

7

12

7

 Removed

–

–

Item 3

–

 Number

1–13

14–20

1–12

13–19

Category

 Total

5

5

4

5

 Collapsed

–

–

Category 3

–

 Ordered?

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Person reliability

0.80

0.79

0.80

0.81

Person separation index

1.98

1.93

2.01

2.06

Item reliability

0.98

0.93

0.99

0.98

Item separation index

6.62

3.77

10.45

6.45

Average infit, MnSq (z-std)

 Participant ability

1.02 (0.0)

0.98 (−0.3)

0.99 (− 0.1)

0.96 (− 0.2)

 Item difficulty

1.00 (0.0)

1.01 (0.0)

0.99 (− 0.2)

1.02 (0.1)

Average outfit, MnSq (z-std)

 Participant ability

1.01 (0.0)

0.98 (−0.3)

1.00 (0.0)

0.97 (−0.2)

 Item difficulty

1.01 (0.0)

0.98 (−0.1)

1.01 (− 0.1)

0.97 (− 0.4)

  1. QIRC Quality of Life Impact Refractive Correction, N number of participants, MnSq mean square, z-std z-standardised