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As parents tended to confuse oral health maintenance and prevention, these two related concepts were separated into two items.
For example, after review from the first pair of interviews, three items in the eating/drinking category were consolidated into two items: eating food and drinking liquids; and four items in the ADL mobility category were reduced to two: walking and using stairs.
Those items were split into two items.
The panel also suggested that one double barreled item needed to be split into two items.
For example, the general item category of "blinding" was divided into two items in the new assessment instrument: item #7.
The modified version comprised eight instead of seven items; the item "psychomotor activity" being divided into two items ("hypoactivity" and "hyperactivity").
In the 1986 , 1990 , 19941998, 2002, and 2006 dietary questionnaires, the question for nuts was split into two items: peanuts and other nuts.
In cases where a single item scored on multiple domains, the item was revised or partitioned into two items to ensure its score contributed to only one domain.
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