While some studies have suggested that lack of awareness in people with dementia impacts on the reliability of self-ratings of variables such as QoL [ 83, 84], others have not found such an association [ 59, 85, 86].
The authors initially indicated that they would carry out a pair-wise comparison of the decision variables to determine the priority ratings of the variables yet now, in addition, the authors want to carry out a pair-wise comparison of alternatives.
We were specifically concerned with the possibility of very frequent ratings for variables that asked about housing and street qualities, and found no strong pattern of common ratings.
An inferential statistical method such as a one-way analysis of variance (One-way appliedwas applied to compare the average ratings of the variables.
Ratings of these variables were extremely reliable with 100percentt agreement between two raters.
12 13 Some rely on observers' ratings of clinical variables but do not consider the added value of including laboratory data.
The programme automatically tabulates the patient ratings of key variables (e.g. subjective anxiety, beliefs about how one came across) and highlights differences between the conditions, as would an experienced therapist.
At T2, nurses were asked to give ratings of patient-caregiver variables, such as level of anxiety, cooperation with care or level of information.
For the substantive analyses (i.e., testing relations of ratings with other variables), we will use mean ratings across the three raters per parent-child dyad.
In particular, the variable of each of the architectures was calculated by averaging the Likert scale ratings of their constituent strategy variables.
Among the last category of variables including MSF ratings, only the mean ratings of colleagues (r = −0.195, p <0.01) and the mean of self-ratings (r = −0.179, p <0.01) were significantly correlated with reported change and therefore eligible for multivariate analyses.
