A pilot study consisting of seven patients (who were not
part of the group of study patients) with varying levels of
education completed the questionnaire to determine whether
the questionnaire was comprehensible. The patients and the
data from the pilot study were not considered in the full
study. These participants had no difficulty in understanding
and completing the questionnaire.
Thus, we prepared the 29-item, self-report, objective response
questionnaire concerning MP use as an evaluation
instrument (Table 1). We present the participant demographic
data in Tables 2 and 3 using percentages. We report
age as the means and standard deviations. The chi-squared
test with a 95% confidence interval and a p-value