Sentence examples for moderate floor effect from inspiring English sources

The JAFI scoring system may be vulnerable to a moderate floor effect, resulting in insensitivity for detecting impairments [2].

In contrast there was a large floor effect for SPPB on awakening and ICU discharge time points and a moderate floor effect at ICU awakening for IMS (17%).

The SPADI showed a moderate floor effect (score = 0) for 3 items, highest for item 10 (difficulty in putting on your pants?) with 23.6%.

WORC items showed a moderate floor effect (score = 1) for four items and highest for item 6 (How much discomfort do you experience in the muscles of your neck because of your shoulder?) with 23.6%.

The moderate floor effect in the arm and hand function category may be due to our patient population, of which more than 75%% of participants experienced lower limb skeletal muscle injury and were more likely to respond that they had no upper limb function impairment.

The mean score has shown moderate high floor effect, further indicating lack of applicability in COPD.

Due to the limited reliability, moderate responsiveness, floor effect and large measurement error of both the pain and most of all the perception scale, found in our study and other studies it is advisable that the items in these scales (item 10-17) are used with extreme caution.

UCLA has been validated in patients undergoing hip or knee joint replacement [ 35] with good construct validity, test-retest reliability [ 35, 36], moderate responsiveness, low ceiling and floor effect [ 36].

We also showed some moderate and high floor effects in dysfunction measures (anxiety, depression, pain and disability) of the DUKE, which indicates poor discrimination properties.

The remaining 6 items had moderate to large floor effects (PILLAR 20.4-43.3%; ASPIRE 17.8-42.117.8-42.1%ing the lowest response category, indicative of low levels of fatigue.Baseline FSS total scores were available for 245 of the 386 patients in the PILLAR study (mean [SD]: 3.28 [1.58]) and for 449 of the 462 patients (mean [SD]: 3.34 [1.65]) in the ASPIRE study [Figure  1].

For all items, the distribution of answers was left-skewed, with a small floor effect (range 1.7 4.5 %) and a moderate ceiling effect (range 27.6 55.0 %).