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It rapidly became evident that one item initially included on the scale ('they make their will and testament and make decisions on their property after they have gone') was not suitable for inclusion in the scale as some health workers were uncomfortable asking this question, although they felt it was an important part of an elderly person's role.
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From these suggestions, 30 items were chosen for inclusion in the scale.
The correlation of a question to all questions in its scale (item-test correlation (ITC)) was required to be greater than 0.40 for inclusion in the scale.
The 17 items that had Pearson correlational coefficients exceeding 0.3 for each care provider group (obstetricians, midwives, family physicians) were retained for inclusion in the scale.
Items showing the highest mean correlation across countries were chosen for inclusion in the final scale.
Items that showed the highest Cramer's V values were selected for inclusion in the final scale (Table 3).
Selection of items for inclusion in the SIB[lang] scale was based on a threshold of 0.5 for the single-item loading of each identified factor.
Items with the greatest loadings on these factors were then selected for inclusion in the final TSQM scales.
Items selected for inclusion in the questionnaire were extracted from scales previously developed for sleep assessment in clinical trials [ 25, 28].
Thus, no pain scale was predetermined for inclusion in the study.
The criterion for inclusion in the study for depressive patients was an intensity of depression, as assessed by the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) (Hamilton 1980)—of ≥ 18 points and for manic patients an intensity of mania, as assessed by the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) (Young et al. 1978)—of ≥ 20 points.
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