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However, it must be mentioned that for these instruments items are scored on a Likert scale and scores should be considered as ordinal data.
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In the paper-based instruments, items were assembled into clusters, as described in Annex A1 of Technical Report (OECD 2013).
The MATE instrument items are on a five-point Likert scale (strongly agree to strongly disagree).
Together, the results from both sites suggest that the ratings made on the instrument items are related to participants' perceptions of how routinely the e-health systems are being used in their practice contexts.
Once the instrument items were transculturally translated, they were piloted with 162 children (see Table 2 for demographics).
Cut-off points for selecting relevant instrument items were arbitrarily chosen as standard cut-off points for evaluating items on a 5-point Likert scale.
For the Cronbach's alpha calculation, K is the number of instrument items, is the average of all covariances between the components, and is the average variance.
Establishing the invariance of self-reported health status instrument items is essential for between-group comparisons and for further understanding psychological phenomena [ 4].
The instrument items were divided into the following five subscales: Definition (5 items), risk of relapse (2 items), etiology (2 items), presentation and symptoms (6 items), and biological and psychological treatments (12 items).
Since scoring algorithm of each instrument did not include guideline to deal with missing data, subjects with missing data in one of the instrument items were excluded in this study.
Thus, despite the judges' responses in terms of items related to the construct, perhaps their knowledge is specific to particular types of cancer, leading to the determination that some instrument items were nonessential.
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