Dear All,
I already possess the article mentioned above but I cannot seem to understand or comprehand how the authors interpreted the answered questionnaire and their exact questionnaire used. Tried contacting the authors but no reply for a really long time. I need to get working on this. Please help fellow researchers!
Thank you
Arvinder
I suggest that you try contacting the authors individually. I checked just two of them and they're both on RG:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jane_Garbutt
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amy_Waterman
If you cannot get the original questionnaire, can you reconstruct the questions based on the paper?
PS: A reference to the paper would have made this question easier to answer!
Dear Prof Ronan,
Good day to you and thank you for your reply. I had contacted them numerous times but I had got no reply from either of them. I can reconstruct the questionnaire but the scoring system seems to be a problem.
Yes, I agree of my short-coming in not providing the link. I apologize for that. The link from researchgate is:
https://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F6878336_Choosing_your_words_carefully_how_physicians_would_disclose_harmful_medical_errors_to_patients%2Flinks%2F09e41506055e48ad4f000000.pdf&ei=OS3IVIPGOaK3mwWYoYKoCw&usg=AFQjCNE2OsMSHny0FO9tbg9BwniFW0Vxiw&sig2=6waRUIDaVOK6lROjmzdNnQ&bvm=bv.84607526,d.dGY
Thank you
With best regards,
Arvinder
Arvinder - Based on my reading of the article, It would seem that the scoring was limited to a selection of one of three options: ["For each question, 3 response items that represented increasing amounts of information disclosed (no disclosure, partial disclosure, and full disclosure) were provided"]. The way I read Table 6, the authors counted the number of responses in each category to each question and then converted them to percentages. I am not sure if this is what you are asking about or if it more concerns the statistical tests the authors used in the analyses.
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