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Redundancy of items was investigated by examining correlations between items.
Most patients require short questionnaires (reducing fatigue, eliminating redundancy of items, and facilitating spontaneous responses).
Redundancy of items was also taken into consideration throughout the item reduction process.
The coefficients were above 0.9 for all CAMPHOR scales suggesting possible redundancy of items.
The calculation of internal consistency and cross validation provided evidence of reliability and lack of redundancy of items.
An α-coefficient in the range 0.7-0.9 is considered desirable to indicate good internal consistency without redundancy of items [ 31- 33].
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Furthermore, redundancy of item contents can be seen as potential shortcoming of the ERQ so that greater item diversity was an explicit aim in the development of the NARQ.
One of the themes generated from the focus groups was about the redundancy of this item with item 2. This item was written as the exact reverse of item 2, requiring it to be answered in a negative fashion.
Based on their remarks, we then made changes in the Portuguese version and performed a cognitive debriefing interviewing ten patients with the purpose of finding the presence of any problems of clarity, understandability and redundancy of the items.
Although theoretically, the CES-D and the PHQ-9 may complement one another to detect depression and negative emotions, this may be not feasible in real-world practice given increased time of testing and redundancy of the items.
This high negative residual is usually associated with dependency, and a high item-total correlation, signifying redundancy of the item.
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