Then, respondents were asked in five separate items, to what extent they would agree with their health insurer contracting with only certain hospitals, general practitioners (GPs), physiotherapists, dentists and pharmacies.
Translation to Dutch resulted in 11-items, because the English item 'I felt helpless (powerless)' was translated into two separate items due to the difference in meaning between 'helpless' and 'powerless' in the Dutch language.
The study team discussed the adaptations needed to apply the RTI item bank (eg, converting items with two components into two separate items, dropping four items that were not applicable in this setting, and adding a "Not applicable" response to some items) and created a document with details and decision-making rules that complemented the original RTI item bank instructions.
Once in a while two separate items appearing pages apart dovetail.
Ethnicity, the primary independent variable for this analysis, was measured using two separate items in the ENSMI questionnaire.
The number of daily serves of fruit and vegetables usually consumed in the previous week was assessed using two separate items, based on those used in the National Health Survey [ 44]; possible response options were: one serve or less; two to three serves; four to five serves; six or more; and don't consume this food.
The results are expressed in terms of four domain scores and mean raw scores of two separate items: D1- Physical (7 items), D2 – Psychological (6 items), D3 - Social relations (3 items), D4 - Environment (8 items).
The Women's Board had done its job with great zeal — had provided, in fact, more than fifteen hundred separate items, from a stove and a refrigerator down to rolls of paper towels and packages of scouring pads.
In addition, computer familiarity and attitude toward computers were assessed through three separate items that were used in previous deployments of the CITAT.
Despite adjustment for four separate items (sex, years in practice, workplace policy, and support from management), the indicated differences remained, i.e. they resembled the crude values (model 4, Table 6).
