This can take the form of certification for applicable items as well as less formal bona fides.
Item 2 ('Taking an active role in my own health care is the most important factor in determining my health and ability to function') requires rephrasing in the Dutch version: it has the highest percentage (3.3%) of missing values and furthermore 12.8% scored the item as not applicable, which is inappropriate since it is a general statement which applies to all participants.
For each patient, each criterion item was judged as "applicable", "insufficient data" (lack of information), "not applicable" (criterion relevant for patient but the patient's data did not meet the qualifying statement) or "justified non-adherence" (explanation for the patient's treatment not meeting a quality criterion).
In clause (11), the words "such items as" and "where applicable" are omitted as surplus.
Scoring the items between 1 and 5 as applicable, on average, the participants reported low to moderate "Fear of Rejection", moderate "Readiness for Self Disclosure" and moderate to high "Conscious Need for Care".
The translation and adaption process of the MDHAQ led to the removal of two items as they were not applicable to Swedish context, "ethnic group" and "change of medical insurance" – part of question 10 ("Over the last 6 months you have had…").
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Missing data was imputed using the mean response of other items within the same questionnaire or sub-scale as applicable (Tabachnick and Fidell 2013).
The number of caregivers (n) for each item differs; as some of the items were applicable only to some respondents, for example, items on barrier gates at stairs were answered only by caregivers with stairs at their home.
It should be noted, that the EORTC fatigue item bank is not only usable for CAT applications but also for the development of IRT-based static short forms, i.e. fixed item sets applicable as paper-pencil questionnaires.
