The initial measurement consisted of 25-item questions, composed of 6 multi-item scales, and 7 single item scales.
For those questions composed of a subset of questions, the number of positive responses in the main question was used as the denominator for the subset.
Patient satisfaction with home care, as well as physician/investigator satisfaction with distant management of the patient, will be documented using questions composed for the purpose of this study, at the 30-day post-discontinuation visit and on the day of infusion for Cycle 4, for those patients who receive at least four maintenance cycles.
As shown in Fig. 1, a question is composed of four components: (1) a target word, which is the word being tested in the question, (2) a reading passage, in which the target word appears, (3) the correct answer, and (4) three distractors, or incorrect options.
A clear answerable question is composed of four components – problem, intervention, comparison, and outcome – referred to by the acronym PICO [ 5, 6].
In contrast, more generally worded questions are composed of items that allow respondents to interpret their meaning based on important aspects of their own experiences.
The HIV knowledge questions were composed of 22 true/false items listing statements related to HIV/STI's (e.g., "HIV is caused by a virus" and "Most people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are men who have sex with other men").
Ideally, the answer can be found in a single source by a single query, but in practice an answer to a question may be composed of multiple bits of information from several sources.
The MAT exam is a 40-question, multiple-choice test composed of relevant passage style questions.
