Besides this, parents will record daily their degree of concern on a 4-point scale (not worried – moderate worried – quite worried – very worried) in the diary.
Moderate worry about cancer, defined as a negative emotional reaction to the threat of cancer, in general facilitates uptake of cancer screening, but some studies suggest that specific worries about potential consequences of cancer (eg, cancer treatments or dying) may act as deterrents.
20% expressed moderate worry about MRSA acquisition.
Additionally, patients were asked to rate how worried about insomnia they were, using a Likert scale from 0 to 5. A score of ≥ 3 was considered as moderate worry.
This is not an ideological or policy-oriented argument, calculated to reassure conservatives worried that Romney is too moderate or moderates worried that he's too conservative.
Tory moderates, worried that tough rhetoric about welfare cuts will harm the party's image among centre ground voters, are pressing for a rethink about the wages floor.
Meanwhile some moderates worry that Mr Sununu is not as green as Mr Smith.The impact of all this is not clear.
He said he wanted to rally alienated moderates worried that "their parties are in decay, their states aren't working right and their men in Washington aren't doing their job".
Other moderates worried that Mr. Schundler's positions against abortion rights and in favor of weakening gun control were too extreme for New Jersey's centrist electorate and would only pad the Democrats' sizable advantage among female voters.
But the anxiety, commonly voiced by moderates, about the coming political apocalypse — surely someone will attempt an assassination, surely the two-party system is doomed, surely the American people have never before been so bitterly divided — is characterized by the same made-for-TV cliff-hanger intensity as the thumping zealotry that moderates worry about.
