A five-point Likert scale was used where 1 indicates "not at all true of me" and 5 indicates "very much true of me".
For this study, a 7-point Likert scale was used where 1 indicates "not at all true of me" and 7 indicates "very much true of me".
In addition, researchers asked patients to assess their level of concern about the scar or graft contributing to a worse appearance or quality of life on a 5-point scale with one indicating "not at all" and 5 indicating "very much or often" concerned.
Prior to learning and recognition testing, subjects in all experiments rated their subjective sleepiness, activation, motivation and concentration on 5-point Likert-scales with 1 indicating "not at all" and 5 indicating "very much".
Items are scored on a 1 - 6 scale, where 1 is indicating "not at all" and 6 is indicating "very much".
For each symptom, the subjects responded by making a stroke with a pen on a 100-mm line with the left end indicating "not at all" and the right end indicating "very much".
Her score of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) - Severity scale also decreased from 6 ("severely ill") to 3 ("mildly ill"); her CGI-Improvement score was 1, which indicates "Very much improved".
Of the four topics with moderate understanding in the pre-intervention period, two of these topics demonstrated enough improvement to transition to sufficient understanding, with greater than 65% of respondents in the post-convention assessment indicating very much or quite a bit of understanding of making end of life decisions (69% post, 61% pre) and relationship skills (75% post, 61% pre).
Answers were coded with 1 indicating not at all, 2 indicating not very much, 3 indicating quite a lot, and 4 indicating a great deal.
Yet, when I ask these same athletes and coaches how much time and energy is devoted to mental preparation, they indicate not very much and certainly not as much as it deserves.
