For the second research question, descriptive statistics were used to designate knowledge, attitudes, and external barriers.
Based on those two groups, we constructed two indices, which we designated the knowledge index and the skills index (Table 4).
Our analyses of associations revealed two groups of correlated questionnaire items, and based on those, we created two indices that we designated the knowledge index and the skills index.
To measure knowledge about prostate cancer screening, we designated four key knowledge questions, which captured the core messages in our intervention and represented knowledge we felt was essential to making a good decision about prostate cancer screening.
We included experts from the fields of the European chemical industry, governmental institutions and politicians as well as media representatives based on their designated and documented knowledge and expertise, as well as their capacity, willingness and time to participate [40].
MPAs designated without full knowledge of protected species distributions can unintentionally displace and concentrate fishing effort in unprotected areas of high use by the species they are intended to conserve [32].
In the latter example, however, the knowledge designated as nursing territory by the intensivist was perceived by the nurse as inappropriately constrained, signaling a conflict between the two professional domains.
Lee Jae-hoon, designated as minister of knowledge economy, was accused of investing in a city flophouse building as real estate speculation.
However, to our best knowledge, research designated to depict the relationship between insulin resistance and microalbuminuria has been conducted primarily with a cross-sectional design.
In the context of Zen Buddhism, perfection of nondiscriminatory wisdom (Jpn., hannya haramitsu; Skrt., prajñāpāramitā) designates practical, experiential knowledge, and secondarily and only derivatively theoretical, intellectual knowledge.
