An average score of 3.5 was assigned to the item consequences.
Number of items: anticipated consequences – 10 15; frequency of past behaviour – 2. Response formats: anticipated consequences – five or seven point Likert type scales indicating degree of agreement with the item; frequency of past behaviour – open questions.
Sensitivity analysis determines the level of uncertainty in the components of the evaluation by repeating the comparison between cost items and consequences while varying the assumptions underlying the estimates.
A comprehensive literature review and consultation with psychosocial infertility experts generated an initial pool of 302 items on consequences of fertility problems on QoL in the following 14 areas (e.g. marriage/partnership, social network, emotions, cognitions, coping, treatment, physical health etc).
For the current analyses, we only used data on the condition that patient reported had the greatest personal impact, and we restricted analysis to items 1 (consequences), 3 (personal control) and 4 (treatment control), which are the optimal predictors of outcome (9).
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Response formats: identity – the number of symptoms endorsed as being part of the illness from a list of 15 symptoms (score range 0 15); cause, cure/control, duration, consequences – items rated on five point scales from strongly agree to strongly disagree; state anxiety – four choice response (almost never – almost always).
The next 2 items considered perceived consequences of risk (odds of getting sick).
Attitude towards physical exercise was measured using eight items about perceived consequences of exercising.
Of the 31 items on caregiving consequences, 27 are grouped into four subscales, namely, "tension" (9 items), "worrying" (6 items), "urging" (8 items), and "supervision" (6 items).
The 31 items on caregiving consequences are grouped into four scales, namely, tension, worrying, urging, and supervision.
