The direct attitudes were re-categorised from a 1 7 Likert scale to a scale of low, medium and high attitudes on which 1 3 represented low attitude, 4 medium attitudes and 5 7 high attitude.
Child's T.V. viewing was categorised from the question "on a normal weekday during term time, how many hours does the study child spend watching television, videos or DVDs?" responses coded as; low T.V viewing (0 to <1 h), moderate (≥1 to <3 h) and high (≥3 to 7 h).
The 'Route to Diagnosis' for each case was categorised from routinely available cancer data using a detailed algorithm explained in Elliss-Brookes et al (2012).
Instead of giving you a less urgent call (categorised from C1 to C4, depending on the degree of seriousness), they will give you something life-threatening.
The grading system was adapted from a previously published scheme, with physes categorised from 1 (completely unfused) to 6 (completely fused) and is presented in Table I.
The percentage of positive cells was estimated by two independent investigators on a scale from 0 to 100% and categorised from 0 4 (0 = 0, 1 = up to 1%, 2 = 1-10%, 3 = 10-50%, 4 = more than 50%).
This study presents a two-step analysis of EP of cancer, as categorised from routinely available health service data.
A participant's willingness to change their lifestyle or their diet, categorised from responses in the ascertainment questionnaire (and thus before the start of the trial), was not associated with exercise compliance, pain improvement of ≥30%, or with loss of ≥5% of initial body weight.
Swimmers with physical disabilities are categorised from one to 10, the lower the number the more severe the disability.
Points are awarded to the first riders over the summits of climbs, which are categorised from one to four.
