A Tool for Decision-making in Norm-referenced Survey Questionnaires with Items of Continuous Variables

نویسندگان

  • Ankur Barua
  • Kumaraswamy Kademane
  • Kumar Shiva Gubbiyappa
  • Rohit Kumar Verma
  • Muhammad Shahid Iqbal
  • Sami Abdo Radman AL-Dubai
چکیده

Setting up a cut-off point is necessary for opinion-based questionnaires on health care utilization, facilitating factors and barriers to arrive at a conclusion and also for assessing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice. This study and shows how to formulate a tool for decision-making in Normreferenced survey questionnaires and readjust their cut-off points to incorporate the population variation for items containing continuous variables. This procedure will help the researchers to perform finer adjustments in the cut-off values of any Norm-referenced survey instrument based on the local population data and in situations where no gold-standard instrument is available for

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تاریخ انتشار 2013