Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers
The testing and checking phases of a questionnaire are briefly described in this paper, identifying the common errors due to incorrect formulation of questions and the main issues. The theoretical methods for “testing” a questionnaire has been examined in the first section, in the second section the...
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| description | The testing and checking phases of a questionnaire are briefly described in this paper, identifying the common errors due to incorrect formulation of questions and the main issues. The theoretical methods for “testing” a questionnaire has been examined in the first section, in the second section the testing process for a specific questionnaire for assessing the patient’s acceptability of a dry powder device (the Handling Questionnaire) has been described, together with the grading of improvement achieved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e8e032f9d56424faca68212a39884942022-12-22T00:17:02ZengPAGEPress PublicationsMonaldi Archives for Chest Disease1122-06432532-52642016-01-0169410.4081/monaldi.2008.379Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalersR.W. Dal Negro0M. Guerriero1Lung Dept., Orlandi Hospital, Bussolengo, VeronaE.S.I. Department, Statistics Section, University of Verona, VeronaThe testing and checking phases of a questionnaire are briefly described in this paper, identifying the common errors due to incorrect formulation of questions and the main issues. The theoretical methods for “testing” a questionnaire has been examined in the first section, in the second section the testing process for a specific questionnaire for assessing the patient’s acceptability of a dry powder device (the Handling Questionnaire) has been described, together with the grading of improvement achieved.https://www.monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/379QuestionnaireTestingPre-testReliabilityValidityQuestion |
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| title | Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
| title_full | Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
| title_fullStr | Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
| title_short | Cultural and linguistic testing of the Handling Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing the patient’s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
| title_sort | cultural and linguistic testing of the handling questionnaire a specific instrument for assessing the patient s acceptability of dry powder inhalers |
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