Scoring of questionnaires
A scoring system that allowed ordinal and numerical ranking of each of the tested items in each of the sections was generated using the following formula:
Score = (N+1) – X
Where N is the number of statements in a given section, and X is the rank given by the patient to the corresponding item. In this way, the statement rated by the participant as most important will have the highest score in its section (according to the number of statements in each section), and the item ranked as least important will have the lowest score.
To determine the order of importance obtained by each item in each section, the average score was used, which was obtained by adding all the points and dividing it by 300 (total number of questionnaires).