EVEN with the cynicism about corporate financial statements generated by the Enron collapse, investors can still learn plenty about a public company's performance, the known risks it faces in the future and its current problems.
Returning to the problem that we outlined in the introduction, we can see that, when we are dealing with a large collection of statements generated by a diverse set of sources of unequal quality, internal conflicts between the states of numerous arcs and nodes are inescapable.
Item writing was guided by statements generated by participants during concept mapping workshops who were recipients of, or caregivers of people who received, conventional cancer treatments.
Analysis included content coding of personal goal statements generated by the Appraisal Profile, examination of the relationship of goal attainment to content, and association of goal-based measures with QLQ-C30 scales.
Another consideration when identifying content areas for inclusion was whether representative statements generated by participants during consultation activities captured caregiver experiences or whether they captured broader contextual factors that influenced caregiver health literacy.
Due to practical constraints of creating a parallel-form measure we did not test reliability by comparing the final checklist statements generated using the Delphi technique with statements generated by another method of developing the tool – for example via focus groups or consensus meetings with experts [ 12].
After the brainstorming round was finished, the list of statements generated by the participants was reviewed by three members of the project team (JH, JK, YB) to eliminate duplicates and to edit the remaining statements to minimize any confusion in meaning.
For example, the Negative Affectivity Self-Statement Questionnaire (NASSQ; Ronan et al. 1994; NASSQ-Anxiety scale; Sood and Kendall 2007), which was developed using self-statements generated by children, measures both symptoms (e.g. "I was shaking") and thoughts (e.g. "I usually do something stupid").
Each statement generated in brainstorming was captured by the facilitator.
The problem statement is generated by the preceding problem identification which fits the purpose of identifying the specific research objective at hand.
A formally prepared document with consensus statements was generated by SK and subsequently revised by PA, with the assistance of all co-authors.
