Particularly upsetting items drew additional review by the program committee, as well as by advisers and staff.
24, 25 With regard to the research hypotheses, two domains of the scale, namely, responding to disturbing behaviors (CSE-RDB) (five items) and controlling upsetting thoughts (CSE-CUT) (five items) were selected for measurement.
The acceptability of the IOF QLQ was assessed by the response rate, percentage of missing data, assistance and time needed to complete the questionnaire and details of items considered upsetting, confusing or difficult in the questionnaire [ 22, 23, 25].
At baseline, participants completed a debriefing questionnaire that recorded time for completion, whether any help was needed and whether any of the items were upsetting, confusing or difficult to answer.
For its part, Party City says it is trying to play down some items that may be deemed upsetting or in bad taste.
To gauge homophobia in a household, students responded to items such as, "It would be upsetting for my mom to find out she was alone with a lesbian" or "My dad avoids gay men whenever possible".
No items were found to be intrusive or upsetting.
However, in brief, data quality was high (there were few missing data) implying that the scales can be completed successfully, and that the items are relevant, and not confusing or upsetting to people.
It is alleged that they have been made smaller than would be historically accurate in order to avoid upsetting American audiences, who may be uncomfortable with such blatantly virile fashion items.
The patient interviews helped to pre-test item wording (e.g. whether the items are confusing, intrusive, difficult, upsetting or annoying) and to find out whether relevant issues have been missed during the previous steps.
