BACKGROUND On February 6th, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that competent adults suffering intolerably from a grievous and irremediable medical condition have the right to the assistance of a physician in ending their own lives, an act known as physician-assisted death, and later defined as medical assistance in dying, allowing for provision by a physician or a nurse practitioner. As o...

Various survey instruments have been used to measure patient safety culture. Many of these instruments use a (usually5-point) Likert scale. This studyused the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-Korean version (SAQ-K), consisting of 34 items in six domains, to examine whether other scales, such as dichotomized and trichotomized scales, present equivalent estimates to the currently used 5-point Liker...

Likert-style surveys are a widely used research instrument to assess respondents' preferences, beliefs, or experiences. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate how network analysis (NA) can be employed model evaluate the interconnectedness of items in surveys. We explore advantages approach by applying methodology aspects student experience scale datasets compare results principal component a...

One of the controversial methodological topics in social and behavioral sciences is (ab)use Likert Scale items, Likert-type items ranked ordered response categories. The debate whether parametric tests can be legitimately conducted on technically ordinal categories that are represented with numbers. Participants answered survey questions moral disengagement, where we changed intervals seven tes...