Table 5

Spearman correlations in the German sample (N=153) of quality of life assessments with age, GCS, time since injury and outcome measures relevant for construct validity

	Age	GCS	Time since injury	GOSE	SF-36 PCS	SF-36 MCS	HADS anxiety	HADS depression
QOLIBRI total	−0.06	0.08	−0.10	0.58*	0.58*	0.64*	−0.70*	−0.78*
QOLIBRI-OS	−0.06	0.10	−0.08	0.56*	0.53*	0.61*	−0.65*	−0.75*
SWLS	0.08	0.05	−0.03	0.45* **	0.38* ***	0.54*	−0.51* ***	−0.70*
QoL-VAS	0.07	0.01	0.02	0.32* ***	0.43*	0.49*	−0.41* ***	−0.54* ***

*p<0.001. Steiger's t test (two-tailed) for a difference with the QOLIBRI-OS correlation: **p<0.05, *** p<0.01.
GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; GOSE, Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale; HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; MCS, Mental Component Score; PCS, Physical Component Score; QOLIBRI-OS, Quality of Life after Brain Injury Overall Scale; QoL-VAS, Quality of Life Visual Analogue Scale; SF-36, Short-Form-36; SWLS, Satisfaction With Life Scale.