Questions on outcome measures are based on validated standard questionnaires used in physical activity-related studies to detect changes over time for physical activity levels, 32 subjective well-being, 33 and health outcomes and costs.
They rated the three sets of questions on four measures.
During the focus group discussions questions on the measures' effectiveness, investment and maintenance costs, pros and cons regarding environmental impacts (local to global scale), and social and socioeconomic aspects were discussed aiming to achieve information that could be applicable in the assessments.
Parents were also accompanied by a research assistant during the entire assessment and they were assisted if they had any questions on the measures.
Studies examining response shift phenomena suggest that underlying processes of appraisal differ across people and over time and can greatly affect how people answer questions on QOL measures.
At baseline, questions on outcome measures were answered by participants with a trained researcher on hand to explain or clarify the meaning of particular questions or assist with completing the questionnaire if participants were physically unable to do so.
Part of the study parameters will be obtained from physical examinations and questions on outcome measures are based on questions used for the PHS survey in the construction industry.
The information about exposure to HC presented here is based on answers to questions on summary measures as ever having used, current use, total duration of use, age at first use, and use before first full-term pregnancy.
For example, regarding the 11 questions on cooling measures for the institution at large (Table 2), two care managers rated all items as 'important', while two other care managers reported that they expected no problems with the implementation of the cooling measures.
Dimensions measuring similar constructs also correlated more highly than others with, as an example, the pain questions on each measure all having correlations of greater than 0.615 between one another.
