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).