Readying a US measure of health status, the SF-36, for use in Canada

Table 2: Ordinality of response choice pairs (see Results)
    Sample; mean % of response choice pairs
that were ordinal
Response anchors, English Response anchors, Français Canadian English n=97 US Health Institute n=48 Canadian French n=93
Definitely false-Definitely true Tout à fait vrai-Tout à fait faux 99.5 98.0 98.8
None of the time-All of the time Jamais-Tout le temps 98.4 97.4 95.9
Not at all-Extremely (pain) Aucune douleurs-Douleurs très intenses 99.2 98.7 99.5
Not at all-Extremely (social) Pas du tout-Énormément 99.1 98.9 99.5
Poor-Excellent Mauvaise-Excellente 99.7 99.3 99.3
None-Very severe Aucune douleur-Douleurs très intenses 99.2 99.1 98.9
Total   99.1 98.6 98.5

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