OBJECTIVE To assess which subjective scale, the visual analogue scale (VAS), the Borg CR10 (Borg) scale, or the Likert scale (LS), if any, is decidedly more reproducible and sensitive to change in the assessment of symptoms. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING Exercise laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-three physically active male subjects (mean +/- SD age of 30 +/- 4 years old) were...

The reliability of the fuzzy scale for assessing the responses of a person in an opinion questionnaire (which is usually treated as a Likert-type questionnaire) is analyzed. Thus, a comparison between a classical Likert scale-based questionnaire and its fuzzy rating scale-based version in terms of their reliability is established. For this purpose, some questions of the Grasha-Riechmann student...

AIM Ocular trauma of varying aetiologies do occur frequently, however when different traditional/harmful substances are applied before presentation in the hospital, prognosis in terms of visual outcome following treatment may be worse than expected. This study is aimed at determining the prevalence of harmful/traditional eye medication practices among patients with traumatic eye injury in a ter...

BACKGROUND Ekiti State of Nigeria is known to have the lowest prevalence of HIV in Nigeria. University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Ado Ekiti was recently upgraded to serve as one of the three centres for HIV/AIDS referral, diagnosis and treatment in Ekiti State. We evaluated the baseline immunologic and biochemical parameters of patients presenting at the ART clinic of University Teaching Hospital...

The study focused on the relationship between manpower developmentand performance with special reference to non academic staff of universities in Ekiti State. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for study. population comprisednon three public (Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Bamidele Olumilua University Education, Science and Technology Ikere-Ekiti, Federal Oye-Ekiti) sample siz...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. 2 Department of Botany, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 3 Department of Physiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria., 4 Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. 5 Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, N...

Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient is the most popular method of examining reliability. It is typically used when the researcher has several Likert-type items that are summed or averaged to make a composite score. Distribution of alpha coefficient has been subjected of many studies. In this study relationship between randomness and Cronbach alpha coefficient were investigated and in this context, pre...

Physico-chemical properties of three Fadama farm site soils located in Ado-Ekiti, IkereEkiti and Ifaki Ekiti, all in Ekiti State, Nigeria, were evaluated. The parameters evaluated for were pH, particle size distribution, free Fe2O3 and Al2O3, organic matter, base saturation percentage and total exchangeable bases in eleven zones and thirty-three soil samples. The pH values showed that the soils...