Sentence examples for items revised from inspiring English sources

BSI = Brief Symptom Inventory, SCL-90R = Symptom CheckList-90 items Revised.

From the items revised following cognitive interviews, reliability testing was conducted to ascertain response consistency over a brief time interval.

Minor rewording was made in five items (revised items 3, 12, 16, 24 and 34 in Table 2), and two items were reworded for conceptual reasons (revised items 9 and 11 in Table 2).

This misconception appeared as a distractor in three different items (one newly written item, one item revised from the study 1 instrument, and one item identical to the study 1 instrument; see Additional file 1: Table S11).

The participants also completed the validated Arabic version of the 90-item revised symptom checklist (SCL-90R).

b,c Scores on the depression (range: 0-4) and the anxiety (range: 0-4) scales of the 90-item revised Hopkins Symptom CheckList (SCL-90-R).

The couples' QOL in terms of physical and mental health, depression, benefit finding, and marital satisfaction will be assessed using the Medical Outcomes Study 12-item short form (MOS SF-12) (version 2) [ 40], the 14-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ 41], the 17-item revised Benefit-Finding Scale (BFS) [ 42], and the 14-item Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) [ 43, 44].

The change techniques used in each component are categorised using a 40-item revised version of Abraham and Michie's 26-item taxonomy of behaviour change techniques [ 52, 53].

29 The anonymous questionnaire included the 23-item revised Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R), 23 which was used to measure the prevalence of a range of 22 potentially bullying behaviours (see table 3) as well as overall bullying.

b Lower scores indicate worse health c,d Scores on the depression (range: 0-4) and the anxiety (range: 0-4) scales of the 90-item revised Hopkins Symptom CheckList (SCL-90-R).

On the basis of the findings of this analysis, the validity of the domains was confirmed, and the items were revised or new items were added.