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I intend to examine the possibility of learned helplessness in patients. I would like to know the process of evaluating this behaviour in patients and what scales I should use?
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Greetings all. If you have two groups (one exposed and not exposed) using an unmatched case-control study design, do you need to match all other variables? Could this be avoided by just performing...
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I conducted the validation of a scale into another language and it seems to mirror the findings of the original and other international results. However, I was not able to conduct a construct...
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While attempting to validate a questionnaire, I have noticed that many authors (from different countries) use different softwares such as R Statistics or Mplus Statistical Package to perform...
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We compared the composite scores of the indirect and direct measures (attitude/subjective norm/perceived control). They were all strongly correlated. But in some journal articles, authors seem to...
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The skewness and kurtosis of the data was within limits that can be considered normal (-1 to 1). Do you still conclude that the results are significant but stating that a larger sample size would...
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If the methodology of the study is sound, can you just conclude by saying that being diabetic does not confer an extra risk of being predisposed to latent TB infection (in contrast to having...
23 May 2015 3,288 8 View
I am working on validating a questionnaire and I need to ensure that there are few (or no) outliers that might affect the factor analysis process. Is the outlier labeling technique (Hoaglin,...
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Recently, we embarked on a research project that involves the assessment of the intention of primary care physicians in providing sickness certification to patients. We rigorously conducted pilot...
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As a primary care physician, I found that there is a certain gap in practical knowledge that clinical practical guidelines (CPG) seem to offer my fellow colleagues. Hence I embarked on a mission...
11 January 2015 6,761 8 View
When there is no prevalence data available, how does one calculate effect size? I thought the best way would be to do it post-hoc. I do realize that it could unreliable. But if that is the only...
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Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are almost inseparable. At times they work dynamically. However, there are many examples of testing out the intrinsic motivation component in other fields, less...
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