Participants were asked their degree of confidence (including "not confident at all", "not confident slightly", "slightly confident", or "absolutely confident") regarding the activities.
All three questions will be answered on a four step scale: "not confident at all", "a little confident", "quite confident", and "very confident".
Self-efficacy is measured by asking participants' to rate their confidence (1 = not confident at all, 4 = very confident) in eating healthy foods (8 items), becoming more physically active (10 items), and managing their stress (9 items) [ 47, 48].
^ Scored using a Likert scale ranging from 1 ("not confident at all") to 5 ("great confidence").
In both surveys, Likert scales were used ranging from 1 ("not confident at all") to 5 ("great confidence") to score questions about students' level of confidence with the skills and procedures under study.
GPs were also asked to rate their confidence (very confident, not very confident, not confident at all) in managing a mild, moderate, or severe/critical asthma exacerbation in children, and their confidence in managing infrequent episodic, frequent episodic, and persistent asthma.
Readers were also asked to give a confidence level to their localizing score (one = not confident at all to five = very confident).
During the study, with every question answered, all users were asked to rate their level of confidence in their answer on a scale of 1 (Not confident at all) to 5 (Very Confident).
At baseline, demographics and practice characteristics of each participating GP were collected, as well as their interest in palliative care (on a numeric rating scale (NRS) from 0, not interested at all to 10, extremely interested) and their confidence in providing palliative care by themselves (NRS from 0, not confident at all to 10, extremely confident).
Analysis of the relationship among the participants' demographics, their job type and their confidence in the hospital's ability to provide PPE was performed using the response variable confidence, which had three ordinal levels: very confident, somewhat confident and not confident at all.
Perceived confidence related to these practices was collapsed into three categories: 1) not confident at all, 2) somewhat confident or 3) very or extremely confident.
