The questionnaire included questions on sociodemographics, self reports of behaviour, knowledge and oral problems and a single-item measuring self-reported state and satisfaction with appearance of teeth.
A separate article of about six pages, containing an image, a description, and an account of worldwide distribution, together with reports of behaviour, is provided for each species.
The accuracy of self-reports of behaviour, automaticity and cues is however questionable (Gardner & Tang, in press).
There were 31 estimates based on Parent reports of behaviour with a mean value of 0.34 (95 %CI 0.21, 0.47; range −0.39 to 1.11).
In addition, the validity of Room Leader reports of behaviour of their staff to encourage child physical activity, such as participation in activity alongside children and the provision of verbal prompts was variable.
12 reported a relation between lower performance on fear recognition and parental reports of behaviour problems, but this only occurred in children with right-sided, as opposed to left-sided, refractory temporal lobe epilepsy.
Although there have been reports of behaviour change after the communication of genetic risk information, 26 the collinearity between the communicated risk estimates and genotypes prevents assessment of their independent effects.
However, a study explaining self-reporting of behaviour in risky situations by 8-year-old children identified fate as the principal reason for the occurrence of minor injuries [ 17].
Future studies should examine whether findings differ if child, rather than parental, reports of behaviours or emotions are used.
A qualitative approach based on Critical Incident Techniques (CIT) was used which involved collecting and analysing reports of behaviours in defined situations [ 31].
