Such data lend themselves to reliability analysis, rendering a separate reliability test session superfluous.
Further studies should include an acculturation scale (i.e., Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans) (23) to lend validity and reliability to the acculturation measures.
But, the sociodemographic characteristics of the sample participating in this work is similar to those of the entire cohort, lending support to the reliability of these scales and its future use to investigate associations between subjective social status and health, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.
The authors considered that an echoing of some patient-reported life impacts by health professionals, without the addition of new categories or themes would lend weight to the reliability and validity of a thematic framework developed from patient responses.
Inter rater reliability is adequate, lending support to the rigor of our methods.
We conducted a sensitivity analysis, which suggests our findings are not overly dependent on this single data point, lending strength to the overall reliability of our findings.
Test-retest analysis showed fair to good consistency of weights, scores and MCDA value estimates at the individual level (ICC ranging from 0.676 to 0.698), thus lending some support for the reliability of the approach.
Two previous studies lend further support to the reliability of the model-based copy number estimations for strain CBS1483.
These heterogeneous findings regarding reliability and validity lend support to concerns about the utility of self-reported data, and emphasize the importance of evaluating reliability and validity early in the study implementation period, and including objective data sources, when resources permit.
However, the use of parents as informants might have ensured a more detailed estimate of the onset of depressive symptoms, at least those occurring during early childhood [ 53], thus lending support to the validity and reliability of the duration data.
