Sentence examples for ensures items from inspiring English sources

To generate a pool of potentially relevant items for condition-specific instruments, most studies focus on an inductive 'bottom up' approach using qualitative methods (e.g. focus groups or one-to-one interviews with the target population), which ensures items reflect the perspective of the majority of individuals in the population of interest [ 3, 4].

The watchdog said businesses have a duty to ensure that deals are clear and that they anticipate demand for a product to ensure items are available.

Cognitive testing of the revised items is suggested to ensure items are understood as intended.

In addition, differential item functioning or DIF was assessed to ensure items worked in the same manner across different patient groups and to ensure item stability, to provide additional evidence of scale reliability.

For the reduced scale, inter-item correlations were assessed to ensure items correlated more with items within the same component than with items in other components.

The analysis also focused on the instructions and content coverage of the questionnaires to ensure items fully captured the impact of ADHD on functioning.

The survey was reviewed for appropriateness of wording, clarity of both content and instructions and to ensure items elicited intended responses.

On the item level, potential gender differences were analyzed by unidimensional ANOVAs to test for inherent item bias that would lead to item rejection and, thus, ensure items are gender neutral.

We attempted to ensure items had good face validity and covered all aspects identified by stigma theory by using items from previously validated measures and including several steps prior to factor analysis.

To ensure items related to high unmet needs were not dismissed, items which did not obtain a weighted kappa of > 0.60 but for which > 20% of participants indicated having a high or very high need, were also kept.

These items were developed by Cousins and colleagues [ 22] and Kettis-Lindblad and colleagues [ 23] and have been tested in general populations and donor samples to ensure items are valid, relevant, and clearly worded.