Sentence examples for moderate external validity from inspiring English sources

Pain and diarrhoea dimensions had good external validity (r = -0.3 to -0.6), constipation dimension had moderate external validity (r = -0.2 to -0.3).

We rated the overall risk of bias of pathological and imaging studies as moderate to high, external validity as fair to good, and consistency as poor.

The strength of evidence is moderate to low; reporting and external validity scored moderately [ 46].

The tool showed moderate reliability, poor responsiveness to change, and variable external validity.

Regarding the external validity we found minor respective moderate correlations with the SOC scale.

This checklist has been validated for reliability and external validity.

Therefore, this study includes the same number of patients with moderate, severe and very severe COPD, which improves the external validity of this study.

Other limitation is the relatively small sample size of 99 participants and a moderate enrollment rate (16%% excluded participants), which could affect the external validity.

The external validity of the study is limited by the small sample size and moderate response rate.

However, reporting quality was moderate to poor in 50% of the studies, particularly regarding method of selection of participants and discussion of external validity.

External validity vis-à-vis a clinical diagnosis of depression is considered to be satisfactory; scores ≥ 14 indicate moderate to severe depression.