The personal characteristics of doctor participants were determined on the basis of self reports of a range of characteristics (table 1).
Men who had a proxy in the last study but now live alone, or for whom no proxy interview can be obtained, will be recruited on the basis of self reports of the same measures and using the same cut-offs.
Country of origin was assigned on the basis of self reported ethnicity/country of origin data recorded routinely on admission to hospitals in the Auckland region.
Mode of breast cancer detection was defined on the basis of self reported data.
Most studies measured exposure to smoking retrospectively on the basis of self report, and definitions of smoking status were often not clear.
On the basis of self report data, only a small number of participants (42 for primary care management plus TENS, 29 for primary care management only) reported performing exercises and using the TENS machine according to our a priori defined recommendations of application frequency (at least four times a week for a period of at least four weeks).
We assessed whether baseline diabetes status (ascertained on the basis of self report or drug use, including long term use of glucose lowering drugs, or a combination of both) and serum glucose levels on admission related to death from community acquired pneumonia within the first 28, 90, and 180 days from diagnosis.
Dr. Hudson said the most significant limitation of the study was its basis on self-reports, explaining that people tend to underreport their problems with eating disorders.
Second, participants were selected on the basis of self-report of depression and anxiety symptoms on the MASQ-S and not on symptom counts or severity scores from clinical interviews.
In our study, on the basis of self-reporting, the newborns exposed to cocaine did not show (significant) differences on somatometry characteristics.
Third, participants' acceptance of evolution, understanding of NOS and perceptions about teaching of evolution were measured on the basis of self-reports.
