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Those items were split into two items.
The panel also suggested that one double barreled item needed to be split into two items.
In the 1986 , 1990 , 19941998, 2002, and 2006 dietary questionnaires, the question for nuts was split into two items: peanuts and other nuts.
Items that related to the reporting of errors were split into two items to evaluate whether students' responses would change due to the presence or absence of patient harm.
The first section contained 17 of the 18 attitudinal items of the original Patient Safety/Medical Fallibility Curriculum Survey, 5 with items related to the reporting of errors split into two items to evaluate attitudinal differences in the presence or absence of patient harm.
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However, b1 and b2 were split arbitrary into two items, so that respectively emotional (b1a: [b134, b134 and b152]) and other mental (b1b) codes, as well as pain (b2a: [b280]) and other sensation (b2b) could be appreciated separately.
Detection of DIF can be dealt with by splitting a misfitted item into two items, one item for women, with missing values for men, and the other for men, leaving women with non-responses [ 38].
Whilst the original questionnaire was comprised of nine items, our modified version was comprised of ten items, as the "spiritual and psychological aspects" section was split into two separate items.
An EFA (not shown) suggested that the hypothesised future worries scale should be split into two, with items 37 and 38 forming one scale (worries about others) and items 39 41 forming another scale (future worries).
Consequently, these four items were each split into three separate items; one for the UK alone, one for the Netherlands alone and one for Germany and France together.
No statistically significant differences were noted in the construct scores for behaviour intention (p = 0.97); attitude (p = 0.8); perceived behavioural control, either as a four item scale (p = 0.76), a 3 item scale (p = 0.97), or split into the two item controllability (p = 0.83) and self-efficacy scales (p = 0.42); subjective norm (p = 0.26); and past behaviour scores (p = 0.16) (Table 4).
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