Throughout the paper, we will mostly use terminology from fingerprinting (i.e., users instead of items, colluders instead of defective items), unless we are specifically dealing with group testing results.
Notably, PACSLAC is one of the few instruments in which the item collection is based on pain items specifically geared towards elderly persons with dementia, instead of items adjusted from existing scales developed for use in different patient groups (like paediatrics).
The modified version comprised eight instead of seven items; the item "psychomotor activity" being divided into two items ("hypoactivity" and "hyperactivity").
The psychometric evaluation model differed from the standard approach by focusing on single items instead of multi-item scales.
That Australian-based study used a modified FABQ-work (summation of 6 items instead of 7 items) thus cannot be directly compared with this study [ 34].
Namely, item 22 was allowed to load on attitudes instead of norms, item 20 was also allowed to load on attitude instead of perceived behaviour control, and item 25 was allowed to load on intentions instead on norms.
Instead of the item 'Patient safety is never sacrificed to get more work done'(A15), the item: 'We work in "crisis mode" trying to do too much, too quickly'(A14) became part of this factor.
However it seems worth to study the question which profile solutions result when the plausible values instead of the item responses are used as the dependent variable.
