Sentence examples for instruments our study from inspiring English sources

By evaluating the health numeracy of Japanese, and its measurement instruments, our study is a step towards improving medical risk communication.

In contrast to the development of other stroke-specific instruments, our study used I-CVI, IRT and CFA as rigorous evidence for item selection, validity and reliability.

In addition to setting out the modified PCAT-T version of the PCAT-C instrument, our study conducts a psychometric evaluation of the PCAT-T version, based on a sample of 1440 interviews across 11 health care sites, ranging from prefecture level hospitals to township health centers.

Most instruments in our study had a SD between 10-15% of the instruments' range, resulting in a required sample size of N = 400 to detect small differences between baseline and after four weeks [ 21].

By using a highly similar protocol and instruments in our study it is possible to compare our results with those from previous (European) studies.

The instruments of our study were based on the protocol of the Canadian Adverse Event Study, which was originally used by the Harvard Medical Practice Study[ 3, 10].

All these differences may explain the divergent results obtained from the two instruments in our study and reported by other authors.

There was a high degree of internal reliability with these instruments in our study, as assessed with Cronbach's alpha (Table 1).

Several instruments in our study have actually shown applicability also in studies evaluating diverse specific surgical procedures such as arthroplasties in metacarpophalangeal joint and proximal interphalangeal joint, and carpal tunnel syndrome [ 5, 12, 13].

A major basis of this difference is that most of mentioned studies performed a direct assessment of the patients by using various instruments whereas our study was an opinion survey.

In our survey, the FI prevalence was much lower than the prevalence of food insufficiency, as it can be estimated by applying the INCA 2 and BSN instruments to our study population: 6.30% for FI versus a food insufficiency prevalence of 20.9% and 10.5% in the BSN and INCA 2, respectively.