Vignette design has been largely neglected in anchoring vignette studies. This study aimed to contribute to the science of vignette design by developing and evaluating vignettes for measuring vision in rural China. Cognitive interviews were conducted among 36 participants in a Chinese middle school. The respondents either directly evaluated vision of the vignette character (i.e., noncomparative...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether presenting test performance characteristics influences clinical management. DESIGN Two questionnaire-based, randomized controlled trials. SETTING Mailed surveys with 2 clinical vignettes. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected US pediatricians (N=1502). INTERVENTION Vignette-specific, randomly assigned test information: no additional information (control), test ch...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Conscientious refusal of abortion has been discussed widely by medical ethicists but little information on practitioners' opinions exists. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued recommendations about conscientious refusal. We used a vignette experiment to examine obstetrician-gynecologists' (OB/GYN) support for the recommendations. DESI...

Based on Hunt and Vitell’s theory of ethics, using three vignettes, we tested intrinsic extrinsic religiosities five ethical principles (justice, deontology, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism) in the decision-making process 232 Indian business professionals. Intrinsic religiosity is positively related to recognition intent negatively vignette concerning duty care. Although predicted justice, d...

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by King et al. (2004). This intuitively and attractive idea requires the properties of vignette equival...