Sentence examples for items and shortened from inspiring English sources

Given the complexity of CBSEI, leads us to propose that the inventory should be reduced when it comes to the number of items and shortened to only address the labour process without differentiating between the stages.

Besides questions about continuation of running or other sport activities, all follow-up questionnaires also measure physical activity (SQUASH), motivation toward exercise (BREQ-2), and physical and mental health (RAND-36, 7-items scale of Pearlin and Schooler, 5-item scale on high prevalent health complaints, and shortened 6-item scale for loneliness).

The past 30-day experience of depressive symptoms was examined using an adapted and shortened 10-item version of the Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) [ 16].

Rasch analysis was computed separately for the two latent second-order factors and shortened the HeRQoLEDv2 to 20 items.

Internal consistency of both the original 15-item and the shortened 11-item version proved to be adequate (Cronbach's alpha = 0.78 and 0.82, respectively).

Endovascular repair showed statistically significant improvement in items of resource utilization including reduced blood loss, reduced utilization of intensive care unit (ICU), and shortened hospital stay.

And shortened by how much?

This interview was edited and shortened.

There are several versions of the questionnaire: the first one had 48 items and it was shortened to 41 items [ 17].

According to the previously published 74-item quality of life scale for BPH (BPH-QLS), we developed a pool of items, then condensed these items and validated the shortened scale, based on collected data from 163 patients with BPH.

IRT can be used to select the most useful items for a shortened scale, and to develop a scoring algorithm that predicts the total score on the full scale [ 15, 16].