LTCQ item responses (n=1211)
| Item | Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | Always | Missing | Not applicable† | ICCC+ |
| 1. Able to cope well with health conditions | 3% | 10% | 29% | 26% | 31% | 1.50% | 0.059 | |
| 2. Able to fulfil responsibilities | 12% | 15% | 20% | 18% | 32% | 1.90% | 0.037 | |
| 3. Able to be as physically active as you wanted | 21% | 20% | 21% | 17% | 20% | 1.20% | 0.023 | |
| 4. Felt in control of daily life | 8% | 13% | 22% | 21% | 35% | 1.30% | 0.064 | |
| 5. Able to take part in activities you enjoy | 16% | 22% | 22% | 17% | 21% | 1.40% | 0.035 | |
| 6. Felt that your home is suitable for your needs | 4% | 5% | 15% | 18% | 56% | 1.50% | 0.040 | |
| 7. Felt safe at home | 2% | 4% | 10% | 19% | 64% | 1.20% | 0.028 | |
| 8. Felt safe outside the home | 9% | 10% | 23% | 18% | 38% | 2.00% | 0.060 | |
| 9. Felt bothered by symptoms* | 9% | 12% | 33% | 26% | 19% | 1.50% | 0.039 | |
| 10. Felt more dependent on others than you wanted* | 19% | 13% | 20% | 21% | 27% | 1.00% | 0.027 | |
| 11. Felt lonely due to health conditions* | 34% | 15% | 24% | 15% | 11% | 1.00% | 0.036 | |
| 12. Worried about being treated differently* | 39% | 17% | 25% | 10% | 7% | 1.50% | 0.053 | |
| 13. Found health/other services difficult to cope with* | 20% | 13% | 19% | 6% | 3% | 2.20% | 36% | 0.037 |
| 14. Found treatments difficult to cope with* | 31% | 21% | 19% | 8% | 4% | 1.40% | 17% | 0.033 |
| 15. Felt that your health conditions made you unhappy* | 20% | 16% | 31% | 18% | 13% | 1.30% | 0.068 | |
| 16. Felt you knew enough about your health conditions | 5% | 11% | 24% | 26% | 32% | 2.10% | 0.005 | |
| 17. Had enough social contact with people | 5% | 13% | 21% | 21% | 38% | 2.10% | 0.052 | |
| 18. Had enough support to cope well with health conditions | 4% | 9% | 21% | 25% | 40% | 1.40% | 0.060 | |
| 19. Felt confident in managing health conditions | 6% | 8% | 23% | 22% | 40% | 1.20% | 0.052 | |
| 20. Able to live your life as you want | 16% | 17% | 20% | 18% | 28% | 1.00% | 0.043 |
+ICCC for item responses across recruiting GP practices. A coefficient of 1 would indicate that all responses within a given cluster (practice) were identical, that is, all variance in responses is explained by cluster; coefficients approaching zero indicate negligible variance in responses across clusters (practices).
Bold values indicate ceiling effects for individual items.
*Questions 9–15 are reverse-scored, that is, ‘never’ is the most positive response option.
†Questions 13 and 14 have an additional response option: “have not received any health-related services/treatments in the past 4 weeks”. For analysis these responses were coded as ‘never’.
GP, general practitioner; ICCC, intracluster correlation coefficient; LTCQ, Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire.