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Only the subscales deemed by investigators to be most pertinent to the decision at hand were used in the original studies to prevent questionnaires from placing excess study burden on participants.
Our list of babies was matched with provincial mortality records to exclude any babies that had died after discharge from the NICU and thereby prevent questionnaires being sent to bereaved parents.
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The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) for individual measures was computed to prevent questionnaire length from affecting the estimates.
Exclusion criteria are not providing written informed consent; physical or mental inability to give consent or participate in follow-up activities (e.g. dementia); previously received CN; or where language skills prevent questionnaire completion.
Adopting this approach will hopefully prevent a questionnaire pack being mailed to a deceased patient and unnecessary distress being caused to their relative.
To prevent the questionnaire from being solely based on decline, we specifically attempted to introduce a positive stance whereby we challenged people to think about positive aspects of aging, e.g. positive consequences.
To maintain masking of staff involved in data input and analysis and to prevent bias, returned questionnaires bear only a research number.
The exclusion criteria were patients who had already been treated for HNSCC, had recurrent malignant disease, were unable to speak Portuguese or had a functional status sufficiently impaired to prevent answering the questionnaires.
In order to prevent bias, the questionnaire was pre-tested, research assistants received data collection training, questionnaires were reviewed regularly to limit the amount of missing data, and any low quality x-rays were repeated.
Such studies should at least provide the option of pen-and-paper questionnaires, in order to prevent selection bias by questionnaire mode.
The interview was carried out by the second author of this article only in order to prevent variation in questionnaire administration and ensure standardization.
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