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I would like to know if there are specific ways to measure 1) knowledge and skills to perform a behaviour 2) salience of behaviour 3) environmental constraints 4) habit. Or alternatively, do we...
17 March 2017 2,186 2 View
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?
02 February 2017 8,165 4 View
After conducting a retrospective cohort study, I was told that my results on prevalence is inconsistent with the study design. If so, what study design allows prevalence assessments?
24 November 2016 5,317 13 View
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...
20 May 2016 8,664 6 View
I am looking for a valid scale to be used in assessing Learned Helplessness in patients at a primary care clinic. If there is such scale and if it is not available in the native language of my...
06 April 2016 1,331 4 View
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...
22 January 2016 5,765 1 View
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...
22 June 2015 5,154 11 View
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...
14 June 2015 940 7 View
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...
30 May 2015 3,282 4 View
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 3,339 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,...
01 May 2015 1,336 11 View
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...
09 February 2015 9,715 10 View
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 6,819 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...
07 December 2014 2,299 7 View
I conducted both direct and indirect measures. It seems like there is positive correlation for all items in the direct measure (attitude/subjective norm([SN]/perceived control[PC]) in relation to...
23 November 2014 6,504 4 View
To my knowledge, you can gain more than 2 cut offs if you performed a scatterplot. I don't think the same can be achieve using a ROC analysis, since it has a binary function. Any suggestions?
19 November 2014 4,122 2 View
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...
21 October 2014 2,218 8 View
