Analysis of the interview transcripts produced a 38-item instrument which was scaled with three types of five-point adjectival scales of "totally limited/unable to do" to "not limited at all", "all of the time" to "none of the time" and "extremely" to "not at all".
For each item, surgeons had to indicate whether they agreed, on a scale of 1 (totally disagree) to 9 (totally agree), that the item should be reported in a published article of a trial.
Items of the JCQ such as 'My colleagues are friendly' are answered on a scale of 1 (totally disagree) to 4 (completely agree).
hIncrease in median level of agreement on a scale of 5 (1 = totally disagree, 5 = totally agree, with 3 = neutral about statement and 4 = agree) with true statements about delirium, signifying increased knowledge.
Using a likert scale of 1 = totally disagree and 4 = totally agree, the respondents responded to 4 items that reflected their level of confidence in each desired professional competencies (see additional file 1).
Responses were collected using a Likert scale of 10-points (1: totally disagree to 10: totally agree).
The familiarity rating task followed this; subjects were asked to hit a number key as soon as possible to rate the target picture on a 7 point scale of familiarity (1 = totally unacquainted, 7 = completely familiar).
The results included strange and constricting spatial relationships, jarring juxtapositions of intense and unnatural colours, an emphasis on abnormalities of scale, a sometimes totally irrational mix of classical motifs and other visual references to the antique, and inventive and grotesque pictorial fantasies.
30 items (Likert scale 1 4 = totally disagree-totally agree) were used to measure the level of preparedness of the respondents in 7 physician competencies.
Indeed aid agencies report a "totally different scale of destruction" to the south of Ambrym and to the island of Tanna, whose population of 30,000 is scattered in pockets across a volcanic outcrop.
