This was a measure comprised of 5 clinician rated items pertaining to the general construct of anger.
Consequently, we made the decision to define the EMMI as a measure comprised of three subscales, with the intention of conducting confirmatory factor analyses in future studies with this instrument to further test this distribution of items.
The Braden Scale is a summary measure comprised of six sub-scales for measuring an individual's functional determinants of pressure and tolerance of tissues to withstand pressure.
Numerous tools have been designed to capture these, such as the Satisfaction with Life Scale [ 24], Ryff's psychological wellbeing scale [ 25] and CASP-19, a needs satisfaction measure comprised of control, autonomy, self-realization and pleasure domains [ 23].
The composite index measure comprised of criteria which concerned (i) the receipt of courteous attention at the hospital, (ii) decreased waiting times, (iii) the availability of a doctor or nurse throughout the hospital visits, (iv) the receipt of better health care, (v) the frequency of hospital visits when sick, and (vi) the preference for health insurance in participants' own neighbourhoods.
To independently assess the magnitude of change in treatment satisfaction over time, we used a global Patient Impression of Change measure comprised of a single item with a 5-point Likert scale ("much more satisfied", "more satisfied", "about the same", "less satisfied", "much less satisfied").
The measure comprises of 141 test items and takes between 30 45 minutes to complete.
The measure comprises of either 133 or 125 brief items, employing a five-point response set (ranging from "Not true of me" to "True of me") and takes approximately 30 40 minutes to complete with no imposed time limits.
Control measures comprised cohort isolation of symptomatic persons, exclusion of norovirus-positive canteen employees from work and disinfection of the canteen's kitchen.
Secondary outcome measures comprised the number of unmet needs over time, the number of in-patient psychiatric hospital admissions, duration of admission and the number of crisis contacts [ 21].
