Psychometric Assessment of a Physician-Patient Communication Behaviors Scale: The Perspective of Adult HIV Patients in Kenya

Table 6

Examples of cognitive probes.

Cognitive process	Cognitive probes
Think aloud	How did you go about answering that question?; Tell me what you are thinking?; I noticed you hesitated before you answered—what were you thinking about?; How easy or difficult did you find this question to answer?; Why do you say that?
Comprehension	What does the term X mean to you?; What did you understand by X?
Retrieval	How did you remember that?; Did you have a particular time period in mind?; How did you calculate your answer?
Confidence judgment	How well do you remember this?; How sure of your answer are you?
Response	How did you feel about answering this question?; Were you able to find your first answer to the question from the response options shown?

Source: adapted from [26].