The PSD includes 20 items encompassing symptom severity, bother, and functional impacts of itch, stinging, burning, cracking, pain, scaling, and skin color change.
The questionnaire included 12 items encompassing four 3-item motivation subscales (i.e. intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation and external regulation) answered on a 5-point likert scale ranging from 'not like me at all' to 'really like me'.
The disease-specific cancer module consists of 27 items encompassing eight dimensions.
The checklist included 15 items encompassing pre-session safety checks, session initiation checks and post-session quality checks.
The BDI-II consists of 21 items encompassing nine symptoms of depression corresponding to the DSM-IV criteria.
Concerning the complexity of certain items, we applied the ICF-linking rule referring to items encompassing different constructs, an example is shown in Figure 2.
The instruments consist of over 300 items encompassing a large array of patient characteristics including functional status, admission history, medical conditions and other information [ 24].
The MSWBI comprises seven items encompassing the domains of burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization), depression, stress, fatigue, mental quality of life (QOL), and physical QOL.
The PODCI questionnaire consisted of 48 items encompassing six domains: 1) function of the upper limbs (eight items); 2) transfer and basic mobility (11 items); 3) sports and physical function (21 items); 4) comfort and pain (three items); 5) satisfaction with physical condition (five items); and 6) global function.
The parade of items encompasses nearly every aspect of social, cultural and religious life.
Since Darwin's death in 1882, there have been many organized celebrations of his contributions to evolution, including a celebration of his 100th birthday by the New York Academy of Sciences in 1909 and "Phylum Feasts," wherein food items encompass all living phyla, beginning in the 1970s (Anon 1909; Schueler accessed Jan 2008).
