30 31 Briefly, the assessment was performed by two authors, who reached an agreement on all items assessed.
Items assessed health behaviors, perceived stress, resiliency, and preferences for wellness topics and program delivery formats.
Difficulty discarding worn-out/worthless items (assessed by a single item) and diagnoses of psychiatric disorders were based on the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule.
But let us look closer at some of the items assessed.
The cultural group manipulation check items assessed whether participants hold different levels of uncertainty avoidance.
Anchor items assessed the four reading comprehension levels and were invariant across adjacent test forms.
Key items assessed spouse observations of patient pain behavior, attributions regarding these behaviors, and spouse critical/hostile responses toward patients.
The message manipulation check items assessed whether participants perceived that the advertising message is clear and understandable.
Additional items assessed driver attitudes with respect to their perceived level of risk associated with performing these activities.
Agreement between the two devices for some of the items assessed are depicted in the Table 23.
Items assessed RS and communication (expression of feelings, holding back from expression, support and criticism of partner, and parallel ratings of partner behavior).
