Sentence examples for using a validated scale from inspiring English sources

General trust in the health insurer was measured using a validated scale [ 21], which was translated into Dutch and validated [ 28].

Hypnotherapy (HT) is effective in improving both symptoms and quality of life in patients with IBS, and this study was designed to determine whether this improvement is reflected in cognitive change using a validated scale recently developed for use in such patients.

Hence, this work intended to evaluate the relations between some sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, level of education, living environment or country on the levels of knowledge about dietary fibre (KADF), its sources and its effects on human health, using a validated scale.

The aim of this study was determine the influence of maternal pre-pregnancy weight status on infant feeding intentions during pregnancy using a validated scale and assess whether high intentions to exclusively breastfeed measured during pregnancy predicted feeding mode at discharge and at 4 months postpartum in both healthy weight (Hwt) (BMI< 25 kg/m2) and overweight (Owt)(BMI > 25 kg/m2) women.

QOL is incorporated into the scoring of the ESMO Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (MCBS) for the management of solid cancers without curative intent, whereby the maximum MCBS score can only be achieved if the therapy "demonstrates improved QOL or delayed deterioration in QOL using a validated scale" as well as superior survival (Cherny, et al., 2015, p1550, [5]).

QoL was assessed using a validated scale.

The purpose of using the EVAN scores was to use a validated scale from the field of anaesthesia to assess the external validity of the APAIS in the perioperative period.

We believe that our results are very important for future literature in this field as we used a validated scale, which was absent in Fraser et al. study.

We used a validated scale for judging the methodological quality and a binary scale for judging conclusions.

Third, we only used a validated scale to measure clinically relevant depressive symptoms, as a result, our results are only relevant to depressive symptoms and not depression per se.

We used a validated scale (Horne and Ostberg, 1977) for assessing diurnal preference and found the association between ever working the graveyard shift and breast cancer was higher in those with a neutral preference (OR=1.34) than in those with an evening (OR=0.95) or morning (OR=1.12) preference, although there were no statistically significant interactions.