There are no comparable instruments for use in pediatrics, but in adult palliative care similar instruments to measure quality of care from the perspective of bereaved family members have assessed construct validity through hypothesis testing.
In conclusion, given the lack of comparable instruments and the overall favorable study results, we feel that this unique adaptation of the WHO responsiveness questionnaire to evaluate the various phases of perinatal care has been relatively successful.
Currently, a number of comparable instruments are widely used in workplace-based assessment.
Comparable instruments [16 20] as well as additional methods and other combinations of those [21 24] were used for the research of manuscripts in other projects or research groups.
Four African countries – Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya – are participating in this programme of research, and have conducted various surveys on ageing and adult health using comparable instruments.
Third, the convergent validity of the "SmoCess-GP" instrument could not be tested against similar measures because a comparable instrument had not been integrated in the CoSmoS questionnaire.
To monitor and control tobacco use in Taiwan, it is crucial to have a reliable and internationally comparable instrument for surveying smoking behavior.
In comparable research among youths, in which a different instrument was used [ 75], an effect size of.95 was observed.
This instrument has previously been used in comparable studies on social exclusion and is widely used in geronto-logical research in Europe.
Items and instruments were selected on the basis of available information on reliability and validity in the older population, successful use in comparable studies, and, given the potential frailty of some respondents, instrument brevity.
