The questionnaire is easy to administer, and can be used to evaluate interventions in large study groups.
This five question measure is easy to administer and can be used in cost-effectiveness studies to evaluate clinical interventions [ 63].
We chose the CES-D and AUDIT because they are brief, easy to administer and have been widely used in cross-cultural studies, including African settings [ 31].
They are widely used, due to being inexpensive and easy to administer, and are considered particularly useful in large epidemiological and longitudinal studies.
In our review, we restricted our focus on a frequently used, easy to administer, and reliable tool and outcome measure: pressure pain threshold in kg/cm2.
In our study we used validated instruments that have been used extensively and are easy to administer and fairly easy for patients to understand, and consequently no groups of patients were excluded.
The Downton Index is easy to administer and is comparable to those non-validated tools already in use in German nursing homes.
They can be performed using relatively little clinic space, they are particularly safe and easy to administer, and are not aerobically demanding for the participant.
In order to expand their use in clinical practice, it is necessary to develop valid, short, easy to administer and comprehensible questionnaires.
However all self-report measures used in the current study have been validated in renal populations and are brief and easy to administer and interpret.
