Items 8 and 10 were divided into two sub-items and only the highest scores of these items were included in the analysis.
It contains, in principle, 12 items, as item 8 and item 10 each have two sub-items, a and b.
Patients with depression had significantly better cognitive performance than those with schizophrenia on the following variables: VLMT; immediate recall of words, verbal learning, free recall, both subtests of verbal fluency (RWT) (letters and; categories); the Visual test and Digit symbol coding on the HAWIE, as well as two sub-items of STROOP.
Each item has three or four sub-items that indicate criterion behaviour (Additional file 1).
Each item has three or four sub-items referring to criterion behaviour (see Additional file 1).
For example, in one pre-academic item on simple addition, four sub-items were included.
Twenty-three items were generated for the POST module, with two of these being divided into eight sub-items (Table 2).
Of the 16 items, four measured attitudes, two measured knowledge of lifestyle intervention methods (of which one had four sub-items), three measured the extent to which professionals and primary health care centres work with patient lifestyles (of which one had four sub-items) and seven measured perceived organizational support.
In the case of two communication questions with multiple items, a composite score was calculated as the mean of up to seven sub-items for those patients who answered at least four of the seven.
Six additional items assessed patient experience in three domains: access (two questions); continuity of care (one question); and communication (receptionist communication (one question), doctor communication and, separately, nurse communication (one question with five sub-items for each)).
On the other hand, one item in the SF-12v2 consists of three sub-items about how often one feels 1. calm and peaceful, 2. energetic, and 3. downhearted and depressed.
