FABQ=fear avoidance beliefs questionnaire; FfBH=Funktionsfragebogen Hannover; HADS=hospital anxiety and depression scale; PPSI=patient perceived satisfactory improvement.
Patient-perceived satisfactory improvement (PPSI): Participants' perceived global rating of overall change (from baseline) will be recorded on a 5-point Likert-type scale (1 = much worse, 2 = slightly worse, 3 = no change, 4 = slightly better, 5 = much better) [ 36].
It is not inevitable that a treatment which results in a successful clinical outcome will be perceived as satisfactory by patients, particularly if the treatment is painful, unpleasant, inconvenient or associated with undesirable risks or side effects [9, 12].
Yet scientists have found that hens in furnished cages do not use the nest area, suggesting that these nest areas are not always perceived as satisfactory for the hens and reiterating the furnished-versus-enriched argument.
Our findings indicate that the assessed services need to be developed since they were not perceived as satisfactory.
Depending on the disease, DNs' attitudes and DNs' working conditions, the grounds for relying on the DNs may be perceived as satisfactory or not.
Fifty percent reported the feedback messages as helpful in maintaining activity (to a level perceived as satisfactory by the participant), and 76% as helpful in staying emotionally well.
12 This law was widely covered by the media and was the subject of much public interest, and its actual implementation in workplaces (including shops and other enclosed public areas) was perceived as satisfactory.
For both methods, the instructions received before starting data collection was perceived as satisfactory (score 7.9/10), useful (for 95%% of participants) and the information given to assess food intake was considered clear (for 95%% of participants).
Communication between COPD patients and pulmonologist was perceived as satisfactory by patients who attributed a score of 9/10 (IQR, 7 to 10) and by their relatives who attributed a score of 8/10 (5 to 9).
