Result and acceptability of the DA will be measured using one item assessing whether the tailored graphic in the DA was balanced, and four items will assess acceptability of the DA regarding length, amount of information (too much/too little/just right), one-sidedness (pro/balanced/against), and helpfulness in decision making (yes/neither/no).
On a 0-4 scale (0: not at all, 4: a great deal), restaurant customers who noticed WES materials reported that, on average, ease of understanding WES materials was 3.1 (SD=0.9), level of appeal was 2.1 (SD=1.3), and helpfulness in deciding what to order was 0.9 (SD=1.3).
On average, store customers who noticed WES materials reported that ease of understanding WES materials was 3.0 (SD=0.9), level of appeal was 2.3 (SD=1.1), and helpfulness in deciding what to order was 1.2 (SD=1.2) on a 0-4 scale (0: not at all, 4: a great deal).
Further, a classic study by Buss [ 33] showed that both men and women value traits such as kindness, sympathy and helpfulness in potential mates, and it might logically be argued that these are facets of what we might call a cooperative personality.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/149/prepub The authors wish to express their gratitude to Dr. Carina Reis, of the Neuroradiology Department of Hospital de São João, for her solicitude and uttermost helpfulness in the discussion of the MRI images of this clinical case.
Of course, when spending Christmas with his parents, your outfit should take a back seat to your helpfulness in the kitchen and unlimited enthusiasm for washing-up anyway.
Photo: Patrick Michael Ward, happy with his assignment of a lifetime, finds this a season for helpfulness in the Midtown shopping frenzy.
Among 11 16 year olds in Wales, those who reported living with busy traffic and car parking were found to be less likely to have positive perceptions of the safety, friendliness, appearance, play facilities and helpfulness of the people in their local area.
That, Wilson observed, "is part of a tenderness and helpfulness and sympathy in the Sinatra personality that he tries to hide as though it were a weakness".
Students rated the availability and helpfulness of resources more highly in the classroom than the skills lab (43.8 and 28.3 %, respectively).
