Adaptation and validation of the Nigerian Igbo Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in patients with chronic low back pain

Table 2 Reliability of Igbo-MSPSS

	Cronbach’s alpha	McDonald’s ω
	All items: 12 (total score) = 0.88	All items: 12 (total score) = 0.87
Factor structures
Three-factor structure	Factor 1 (friends) = 0.84	Factor 1 (friends) = 0.84
	Factor 2 (significant other) = 0.87	Factor 2 (significant other) = 0.87
	Factor 3 (family) = 0.89	Factor 3 (family) = 0.89
Two-factor structure	Factor 1 (family and significant other) = 0.91	Factor 1 (family and significant other) = 0.91
Two-factor structure	Factor 2 (friends) = 0.84	Factor 2 (friends) = 0.84
Item	Cronbach’s alpha when item is removed
1	0.87
2	0.87
3	0.87
4	0.87
5	0.86
6	0.87
7	0.88
8	0.88
9	0.87
10	0.86
11	0.86
12	0.88
ICC (95% CI): 0.82 (0.68, 0.90)
SEM: 5.90
MDC: 16.34

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