It goes without saying that, particularly in science, we make use of collaborative networks established by others, use equipment built and designed in other labs, analyse data using software developed around the world, do research based on concepts sketched by our advisers and lab mates, use questionnaires developed or validated by scientists before us, and so on.
Mokken scaling techniques are a useful tool for researchers who wish to construct unidimensional tests or use questionnaires that comprise multiple binary or polytomous items.
Researchers use questionnaires to determine the vividness of mental images, and people's scores on these tests are closely correlated to measures of activity in visual brain regions.
The new scheme will be tested in early 2013 in four hospitals, including St Thomas's in central London, which already use questionnaires to collect mothers' opinions.
One proposed means of early diagnosis would use questionnaires to screen high-school students, with parental permission, for signs of mental or emotional disturbance, with follow-up testing and treatment for those who need it.
A standard approach has been to use questionnaires and self-report measures.
Main Outcome Measures: Alcohol and drug use questionnaires, alcohol problem questions, toxicology results, readiness to change, and treatment preference questions.
Subjective studies typically use questionnaires and interviews with study participants in order to establish how comfortable different acceleration profiles are for different people.
Main Outcome Measures: Alcohol and drug use questionnaires, alcohol problem questions, admission toxicology results, readiness to change, and treatment preference questions.
Among existent studies, Chen and Liu (2007), Liao (2010), and Shih (2008) use questionnaires and interviews to compare the learning motivation of students before and after the implementation of the benchmark policy.
Trials use questionnaires to rate "sexual satisfaction," asking patients to score on a scale of one to six their agreement with statements like "I felt like having sex" and "I initiated sex".
