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Table 2 Objective pragmatic rating criteria

From: A pragmatic context assessment tool (pCAT): using a Think Aloud method to develop an assessment of contextual barriers to change

Criteria

Ratinga

Acceptability category

  Cost

4—Excellent: The measure is free and in the public domain

Easy category

  Uses accessible language

3—Good: The readability of the measure is between an 8th and 12th grade level

  Assessor burden (training)

4—Excellent: The measure requires no training and/or has free automated administration

  Assessor burden (interpretation)

3—Good: The measure includes a range of scores with value labels and cut-off scores, but scoring requires manual calculation and/or additional inspection of response patterns or subscales, and no instructions for handling missing data are provided

Length

3—Good: The measure has greater than 10 items but fewer than 50

  1. These items only include PAPERS18 items related to objective characteristics of measurement instruments. The PAPERS instrument also includes “stakeholder-facing” criteria based on user ratings (e.g., usefulness) that were not assessed
  2. aRating scale is − 1 to + 4