We excluded questions that appeared only to be testing factual recall or that were otherwise inappropriate.
In each survey the final mailing to non-responders was an abbreviated questionnaire which excluded questions about the F1 year.
The excluded questions were regarded as the sixth domain "others" and are not discussed in this article.
We used the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire (CECA-Q), but excluded questions on sexual abuse as this was thought to be culturally inappropriate in this setting of an epidemiological survey.
This started with question writing by an expert with the question vetted by a single colleague before submission for ERP work, the ERP work itself that would appear to "weed out" most unsuitable questions (because we excluded questions in which experts were discordant in their responses), and a subsequent review by an experienced committee of examiners before deployment of the questions.
Participants returned to the laboratory and completed a shortened version of the IMI (that excluded questions about content, time since event, age at event), and completed the IES, appraisals questionnaire, BAI and an adapted version of the BDI-II (mood over the past week, rather than fortnight).
Excluding question 12, a multiple choice question, inter-rater correlation for individual questions ranged from 0.52 to 0.98.
Due to the length of the round 1 questionnaire, revisions aimed to minimise the length of the round 2 questionnaire and exclude question areas that had achieved consensus.
While Dr. Neal credits testing companies for improving the fairness of tests, a change he says has coincided with rising minority scores, the method of including or excluding questions is inexact, he asserts.
To compensate, RSA now sometimes excludes questions based on searches online vendors have recently sold.
