Sentence examples for items were firstly from inspiring English sources

The scale items were firstly derived from relevant literature in the field.

Item residuals correlations were firstly analysed to check the potential presence of local dependence (i.e., two items highly correlated in the final model, so that the response to one would be determined by the other).

"We wanted the items to be firstly of good quality, so not previously used where possible, and we had to know that they were safe, particularly where they were electrical," says Travalyan.

Not all items are used; firstly because some items are not relevant for all four groups of medication, for example "Whether the medication will make you feel drowsy" and "Whether the medication will affect your sex life".

Firstly, 19 items were deleted for cross loading or not loading above the significant factor loading of.326, given a sample size of 250 [ 49].

Firstly, thirteen original items were deleted that might influence the framework of the patient safety culture survey.

Firstly "testlets" of locally dependent items were produced by summing their responses.

Firstly, more than 80percentt of the Dutch items were considered appropriate in Flanders.

Firstly, all items from the SCNS-SF34 were rephrased and seven items were dropped following in-depth discussions with study participants.

Firstly, we read the related items in the HPO, finding that these items were classified according to different systems, disease location, and clinical symptoms.

Regarding evidence for construct validity, a correlations analysis was firstly done with the five-scale items.