All attitude items were phrased so that a 6-point response scale of disagree strongly, disagree moderately, disagree slightly, agree slightly, agree moderately and agree strongly, would be appropriate.
Unlike the original version of the BHS, its Chinese version expanded item responses from a Yes/No answer to a 6-point answer of "Strongly Agree, Moderately Agree, Slightly Agree, Slightly Disagree, Moderately Disagree, or Strongly Disagree" [ 21].
A slight modification in the design of the Chinese scale is that instead of asking the respondents to give a Yes-or-No answer, which was considered narrow in the response range, the respondents were asked to respond "Strongly Agree", "Moderately Agree", "Slightly Agree", "Slightly Disagree", "Moderately Disagree" or "Strongly Disagree" to the items [ 10].
(1- Strongly Disagree/2- Moderately Disagree/3- Slightly Disagree/4- Slightly Agree/5- Moderately Agree/6- Strongly Agree) .
(1- Strongly Disagree/2- Moderately Disagree/3- Slightly Disagree/4- Slightly Agree/5- Moderately Agree/6- Strongly Agree) b.
Both FEV1 and diffusing capacity correlated with the HRQoL scores weakly or moderately, FEV1 slightly stronger than diffusing capacity and both lung function measurement slightly stronger to AQ20 than 15D (Table 4).
Sure, Obama plays some word games — but in word and deed he's a moderately liberal, slightly interventionist politician whom neither liberals nor, if truth be told, moderate conservatives should find especially alarming.
Fourteen prisoners and 15 prison officers were moderately or slightly injured in the riot, he said.
