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It should also be noted that the method of obtaining comprehensibility ratings (i.e. first providing the meaning and then asking experts how likely they would be to guess that meaning) might have introduced a 'hindsight' bias – the finding that participants tend to assign a higher likelihood of occurrence to outcomes that they have been told are true (Fischoff 1975).
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The preliminary test was conducted on 32 parents of pediatric patients with chronic diseases in order to obtain the comprehensibility of each item and the acceptability of the questionnaire.
The second draft of the PONS scale was then presented to young people (aged 5 to 18 years), and their parents for feedback, and to obtain information about comprehensibility and appropriateness of both the content and format of the questions.
The approval of an ethics committee must be obtained; this committee should review the comprehensibility of the written communication, the soundness of the methodology, and assess the potential risks and burdens of the procedures in view of the anticipated benefits for the participants or the group they represent.
An initial attempt was made to obtain ratings of familiarity, complexity and comprehensibility of the symbols from study participants.
The goal is not to obtain a perfect translation but to ensure comprehensibility of the essence of the article.
Rating type was blocked with familiarity ratings obtained first, followed by complexity ratings, and then by comprehensibility ratings.
Moreover, mothers had significantly weaker total SOC scores than did fathers for Manageability and Meaningfulness at time-points 1 and 2. However, for Comprehensibility no significant differences between mothers and fathers were obtained at any of the four time-points.
The adequacy of the results obtained from those formal techniques, however, is greatly influenced by the quality and comprehensibility of the underlying formal models.
For a medical questionnaire, at least three main objectives can be identified: to preserve "equivalence"; to obtain a psychometric tool "useful" in the clinics and in clinical trials; and to attain full "comprehensibility" of the medical questions.
Using data obtained from the respondents' perceptions and interpretations, problematic items with the potential to elicit response error were revised, ensuring the comprehensibility and practicality of the scale for lay older adults in Thailand.
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