Our second attitude scale in this analysis, here called " Antidepressant attitudes" consisted of the two items in PCA component 3 and accounted for 8.1% of the variance.
The third section on attitude consists of seven statements.
Recent literature has emphasized the value of a deferred assessment at day 3, justifying in practice a permissive attitude consisting of undertaking intensive support without restriction but with a re-evaluation by SOFA or modified SOFA score after 72 h [5, 11].
The measure of attitude consists of six items using bipolar adjectives with a seven point response format.
The physician's attitude must consist of acceptance of a dialogue allowing the patient to talk and ask questions, by looking at the patient directly and by listening to him/her without ever saying too much, without saying more than the patient has asked for.
Osborne et al. (2003) pointed out that attitudes toward science consist of a large number of sub-constructs, all of which contribute in varying proportions.
According to prospect theory, attitudes towards risk consist of two components, one of which reflects sensitivity to outcomes and the other sensitivity towards chance [ 16].
Another limitation of this study is the operationalization of reading attitudes, which consists of comparatively few items and does not consider different dimensions of the concept like the distinction between academic and recreational reading as research by Baker and Wigfield (1999) and Mathewson (1994) have done.
The knowledge theme contains mental models, declarative knowledge, and self-insight; the skills theme includes subthemes: marketing, opportunity, resource, interpersonal, learning, and strategic; and the attitudes one consists of entrepreneurial passion, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial identity, proactiveness, uncertainty/ambiguity tolerance, innovativeness, and perseverance.
For the purpose of analysis, the outcome variables "knowledge" and "attitudes" originally consisting of multiple categories were collapsed into two levels.
