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Design: A prospective, nationwide, multicenter study; 17 centers supplied data from medical records and patient responses on a standardized criterion instrument.
As no criterion instrument ('gold standard') exists for early detection of parenting and developmental problems, criterion validity cannot be assessed.
In this study, the telephone based MINI [ 8] was used as the criterion instrument to diagnose MDD.
Concurrent (criterion-based) validity was examined by simultaneously recording the same hip ROM movement with both devices, the ETS serving as the criterion instrument [ 17].
A priori hypotheses for convergent and divergent correlations between EDQLS items and total score and criterion instrument items/total scores were tested using Spearman correlations and Pearson's correlations.
The major findings of this study were that goniometric measurements of passive hip motion provided greater ROM data than the criterion instrument ETS.
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Based on this criterion, instruments that took greater than 10 minutes to administer, on average, were excluded.
Criterion and convergent/discriminant validity were assessed by correlations between baseline scores on the DMSRQ-SF and the criterion instruments (TSQM-II, MMAS-8).
For example, Kilkenny et al. (2010) stated that the ARRIVE Guidelines is a 20-criteria instrument.
However, we consider the ARRIVE Guidelines as a 13-criteria instrument because 7 of the original criteria pertain to reporting requirements.
We used the criteria from step1 and the following exclusion criteria: instruments exclusively developed as proxy measures of anxiety, instruments measuring emotions exclusively without related physical sensations, instruments exclusively using observer ratings, and instruments not obtainable despite repeated attempts to contact the authors.
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