or “How is your mood?” Affect is what you objectively observe Note the appropriateness of the patient's affect to the current situation Other descriptors for affect include: Fluctuations in affect: labile, even, expansive Range of affect: broad, restricted Intensity of affect: blunted, ...
Baseline and sample descriptors At baseline, sociodemographic and children clinical variables will be collected from clinical notes and parent reports. Socioeconomic status will be determined using Hollingdale’s Index of Social Position [34]. The following questionnaires, which have already shown valid ...
Last crisis episode descriptors. For each crisis episode, a set of descriptors summarizing the length and severity of the crisis episode was built. These descriptors were used to build features for the subsequent weeks until the next crisis occurred. If the patient had never had a crisis episode...
Given scale descriptors, a cutoff score with a sum of 16 or greater indicated “high instrumental support,” whereas scores lower than 16 indicated “low instrumental support.” Loneliness was measured using an adapted 3-item version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale Short Form (Hughes et al., 2004...
Descriptors of the severity of depression (eg, number of depressive episodes, impairment, treatment seeking) refer to the self-identified worst episode of depression. Overall impairment due to depression was assessed by asking the respondents how much their depression impaired daily life and activities...
Use of peer groupings to assess county public health status. Prev Chronic Dis. 2008;5(3):A93. PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Kanarek N, Tsai HL, Stanley J. Health ranking of the largest US counties using the Community Health Status Indicators peer strata and database. J Public ...
Controlled vocabulary search terms (MeSH terms, Emtree terms, PsycINFO and PSYNDEX Descriptors) and free text words were used. Three main terms about prognostic factors, SA and RTW, and CMD were combined with the Boolean operator ‘AND’ to identify studies (exact search strategy available upon...
A standard data charting form was developed and pilot-tested in Microsoft Excel before data extraction. Data collected from each study were organized according to key information: basic descriptors (title, first author, year of publication, publication type, country), eligibility information (aim/purpo...
In the past, the literature has used the descriptors ‘long-term exposure’ and ‘acute poisoning’ synonymously. While acute poisoning can have strong detrimental health effects that warrant greater understanding, it is now suggested that there are detrimental mental health effects from sub-toxic ...
Table 2. Binary gender and sexual orientation descriptors of reported sextech usage. 2.4.2. Mental Health Anxiety. Participants completed the PROMIS Anxiety Measure Short Form 4a, a 4-item scale assessing the degree to which they experienced anxiety symptoms in the previous week (α = 0.92) ...