| LEVEL ON THE SCALE | Anchor descriptors for the diagnosis format | Anchor descriptors for the investigation format |
Anchor descriptors for the treatment* format | Anchor descriptors for the prognosis format | ||
| Utility issue | Risk-benefit issue | Utility issue | Risk-benefit issue | |||
| New information would make diagnosis hypothesis: | New information would make investigation: | New information would make investigation: | New information would make treatment: | New information would make treatment: | New information would make maternal* prognosis: | |
|
-2 |
Very unlikely | Useless | Strongly contrain | Useless | Strongly contraindicated | Much more pejorative |
| -1 | Unlikely | Less useful | Contrain | Less useful | Contraindicated | More pejorative |
| 0 | Neither likely nor unlikely | Neither more or less useful | Neither more or less indicated | Neither more or less useful | Neither more or less indicated | Unchanged |
| +1 | More likely | Useful | Indicated | Useful | Indicated | More favourable |
| +2 | Very likely | Very useful | Strongly indicated | Very useful | Strongly indicated | Much more favourable |
| *or action | * obstetrical, foetal or neonatal, depending on the clinical case | |||||
Table 2
Table legend text: Description suggested for 5-anchor Likert scales aimed at measuring diagnosis, prognosis, investigation and treatment tasks
Example of anchor descriptors on Likert scale proposed for a midwife SCT
From Anne Demeester, 2004, « Evaluation du raisonnement clinique des étudiants sages-femmes par le SCT », mémoire MUPSS, Université Paris 13.