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How do patients understand the items?
To help users understand the items, the instrument contains a users' guide with explanatory notes.
The advice is to start training at the moment the child can sit properly and understand the items stool, urine and toilet.
Panellists generated footnotes for five items of the tool to help assessors better understand the items, and discussed the validity of the scale.
As a result, the questionnaire was shortened and the wording was simplified to ensure that respondents could easily understand the items and complete the questionnaire quickly.
Unlike other questionnaires that contain short statements for each item we used prolonged and complete sentences in order to help patients to understand the items and avoid confusion.
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In addition, some male patients did not understand the item during interviews or cognitive debriefings because they considered this item to be more relevant to females.
A number of respondents asked how to understand the item "Fatigue impairs my performance during emergency situations (e.g. emergency resuscitation, seizure)".
It is possible that people skip items because they do not recognize themselves or their experience in the item, are unsure which response option is most appropriate, or do not understand the item.
A number of factors such as the wording of items and instructions accompanying a questionnaire, influence respondents' ability to accurately understand the item and to report the requisite information [ 32].
The experts were asked to rate all items in terms of relevance on a four-point scale from not relevant to highly relevant, with an additional response option do not understand the item.
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