Glasgow was a resounding success! Even though I didn't get much sleep in my hotel room - my fault because I was really excited about being so far away from home and I just had to use up all the free tea bags and coffee sachets since it would have been rude not to (subsequent massive caffeine high and the Hippy Hippy Shakes) - my research went really well. I now have all the data to put my PROM together and am in the process of doing it. Now I just have to do the pre-testing and establish some measurement properties for it - temporal stability, construct validity, clinician and patient feasibility, face and content validity - so goody goody...
By the end of today, I will have given birth - so someone fetch me a towel and a bucket of hot water!
I have to admit I have no idea what PROM stands for?
But: "By the end of today, I will have given birth - so someone fetch me a towel and a bucket of hot water!" made me smile because 'in my world' PROM stands for premature rupture of membranes and therefore your giving birth analogy (metaphor?) is rather apt! :-)
Anyway, I'm glad it's going well! (up)
Hi Moonblue, I should have been more specific instead of sprouting gobbledygook. PROM in my world stands for Patient Reported Outcome Measure. I'm just really glad I'm past this specific stage of my research now because I can really accelerate the rate at which I can collect the rest of my data and move things along. Also, by hopefully having produced the first draft of my instrument by the end of today, it feels like I'll finally have something to show for all my effort.
In my period of history, it sounds like there is going to be a Moll House mock-birth or "lying-in" with Wally pretending to give birth to a loaf of bread or something...
Still no sign of my questionnaire. The data analysis is taking ages due to my anally methodical approach to data analysis. Maybe by Sunday, if I can finish off the data analysis today.
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