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Freeing the intercept estimation of this item resulted in a model (model 7a) which is not substantially different from the reference model 3a, according to the ΔCFI <0.01 (Rutkowski and Svetina 2014).
SC also provided the equipment necessary for remote data transmission for the different specialties and satisfaction about this item resulted to be slightly higher (Q4).
Based on communication with the author of the Morisky scale, deleting this item resulted in only a very minor change in the internal consistency of the scale from 0.83 to 0.82.
However, as discussed earlier, deleting this item resulted in minimal change in the internal consistency of scale as well as the sensitivity and specificity of the scale for identifying lower vs. higher adherers.
Although item 12 recorded a significant individual chi square value (p =.007) removal of this item resulted in a decrease in overall model fit (p =.002), therefore it was retained (Table 2 – Analysis 6).
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High interitem correlations coupled with similarity between the items resulted in the elimination of three additional items.
Variation in the number of missing cases by item resulted in variation in denominators.
A composite score of these items resulted in a reliability ranging between 0.66 and 0.68.
A composite score of these items resulted in a fair reliability (0.65).
Subsequent removal of these items resulted in a six item scale (GHQ - 6) which despite demonstrating good item fit, also exhibited multidimensionality.
For this study, the CIRS was modified by removing the "psychiatric illness" item, resulting in 13 organ system oriented questions.
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