Sentence examples for consistency with other items from inspiring English sources
6 Modified from "I am bothered by sweating" for clarity and consistency with other items.
The items were later refined and selected to eliminate the latent variables not expressing enough consistency in relation to the proposed model or not exhibiting a high correlation coefficient with other items measuring the same construct.
Internal consistency reliability estimates for the KDQOL-SF™ and its eight sub-scales exceeded scores for good reliability (with one exception), and items generally correlated with other items on their subscale more than with items in other subscales.
Further analysis found that the internal consistencies of sub-domains were relatively low in naming and sentence repetition tasks (naming: Cronbach's α = 0.55; sentence repetition: Cronbach's α = 0.41), with the lowest scores on the naming item "Rhinoceros" and the repetition item "I only know that Liang Zhang is the one to help today" compared with other items in each task.
Also try to experiment with other items.
The results of the pilot study showed a good internal consistency with a Cronbach's alpha range of 0.62 to 0.85 for most the subscales after deleting items with low correlation with other item groups.
The food and beverage items on the FFQ were aggregated into 71 groups on the basis of nutrient content, cooking and preparation methods, and consistency with other studies of dietary patterns and type 2 diabetes (7, 8).
In addition, item 10 needs to be more closely examined in order to determine the consistency with the other depression items.
These findings indicate that these items are not highly correlated with the other items measuring the same construct and therefore these should be excluded to increase internal consistency.
