Severity of illness (global
symptom severity scale), change in symptoms (clinical global improvement scale), and social functioning (Sheehan Disability Scale).
Not exact matches
In addition, the scientists assessed the
severity of participants» OCD
symptoms before and after the treatment, using a
scaled system in which a lower score indicates less severe or less frequent
symptoms.
The
severity of MS - associated symptoms was assessed using a standardized questionnaire and the Fatigue Severity Scal
severity of MS - associated
symptoms was assessed using a standardized questionnaire and the Fatigue
Severity Scal
Severity Scale (FSS).
The ONTRAC trial assessed ADHD
symptom severity using a parent rating
scale, and measured cognitive performance on tests of attention, response inhibition and working memory.
While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the
severity of HS
symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose
symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger
scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.
An overall «distress» score is also calculated for each
symptom on a
scale from 0 — 16, by multiplying the frequency by
severity scores [2, 27, 28].
If present,
symptoms were characterized by the patient as to
severity by use of an 8 - cm - long visual analogue
scale, previously used elsewhere in a published treatment trial of patients with Lyme disease [20].
Very little is known about the large -
scale brain networks that may underlie the cognitive and behavioral
symptoms of FXS.To identify large -
scale, resting - state networks in FXS that differ from control individuals matched on age, IQ, and
severity of behavioral and cognitive
symptoms.Cross - sectional, in vivo neuroimaging study conducted in an academic medical center.
At the beginning of the study, the average
severity of the men's
symptoms measured about 14.5 on a 35 - point
scale commonly used by urologists; by the end, the average
severity had declined by three points in the placebo group and just two points in the saw palmetto group.
At the beginning of the study, the participants rated the
severity of their fibromyalgia
symptoms — including pain, fatigue, stiffness, poor sleep, and anxiety — on a
scale from 0 to 100 using a standard questionnaire.
The Fatigue
Scale was developed as a measure of the
severity of specific fatigue - related symptoms, while the Fatigue Severity Scale was designed to assess functional outcomes related to
severity of specific fatigue - related
symptoms, while the Fatigue
Severity Scale was designed to assess functional outcomes related to
Severity Scale was designed to assess functional outcomes related to fatigue.
Women were assessed at intake, 12 weeks, and at 3 - and 6 - month follow - up using the Clinician - Administered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Scale - I (CAPS - I), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV Patient Version (SCID), Addiction
Severity Index (ASI), Time Line Follow Back (TLFB), Brief
Symptom Inventory (BSI), Treatment Services Review (TSR), Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ), End - of - Treatment Questionnaire, Evaluation of Treatment Interview, and the Seeking Safety Adherence
Scale.
Associations of these
scales with the eight definitional
symptoms of CFS and with eight domains of functional disability were examined separately in: (1) an overall sample of individuals with a wide range of fatigue
severity and symptomatology; (2) a subsample of individuals with CFS - like symptomatology, and, (3) a subsample of healthy controls.
Unlike the Y - BOCS, it was not designed to measure the
severity of OCD, but rather, it comprises an inventory of 55 OCD
symptoms that are each rated on a 5 - Likert
scale.
The Longitudinal Interval Follow - up Evaluation rates
severity of psychopathologic
symptoms over time using 6 - point Psychiatric Status Rating (PSR)
scales for each disorder based on DSM - III - R criteria; these are scored on a week - by - week basis during the interview period (6 or 12 months).
Analysis of covariance showed that compared with the TAU group, the IPT - A group showed significantly fewer clinician - reported depression
symptoms on the Hamilton Depression Rating
Scale (P =.04), significantly better functioning on the Children's Global Assessment Scale (P =.04), significantly better overall social functioning on the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (P =.01), significantly greater clinical improvement (P =.03), and significantly greater decrease in clinical severity (P =.03) on the Clinical Global Impressions s
Scale (P =.04), significantly better functioning on the Children's Global Assessment
Scale (P =.04), significantly better overall social functioning on the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (P =.01), significantly greater clinical improvement (P =.03), and significantly greater decrease in clinical severity (P =.03) on the Clinical Global Impressions s
Scale (P =.04), significantly better overall social functioning on the Social Adjustment
Scale — Self - Report (P =.01), significantly greater clinical improvement (P =.03), and significantly greater decrease in clinical severity (P =.03) on the Clinical Global Impressions s
Scale — Self - Report (P =.01), significantly greater clinical improvement (P =.03), and significantly greater decrease in clinical
severity (P =.03) on the Clinical Global Impressions
scalescale.
Third, instruments used to evaluate PIU applied varying response mechanisms: some used Likert
scales, which allow for reporting the degree and
severity of
symptoms or consequences, and others used binary yes / no responses, which may not fully capture the frequency or
severity of a problematic behavior.
Secondary outcomes: thoughts, feelings and behaviour (Borderline Evaluation of
Severity Over Time
scale (BESOT)-RRB-; positive and negative disposition (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)-RRB-; Beck Depression Inventory (BDI);
Symptom Checklist -90-Revised (SCL90R);...
Included studies used several tools for measuring the
severity of depressive
symptoms, namely the Hamilton Depression Rating
Scale (HAM - D), 21 22 30 34 35 Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ - 9), 24 36 Geriatric Depression
Scale (GDS), 23 26 28 Hopkins
Symptom Checklist - 20 (HSCL - 20), 37 38 Montgomery - Asberg Depression Rating
Scale (MADRS), 18 25 27 Beck Depression Inventory - Fast Screen (BDI - FS) 39 and Center of Epidemiologic Studies Depression
Scale (CES - D).40 These tools have different score ranges (HAM - D = 0 — 53, PHQ - 9 = 0 — 27, GDS = 0 — 15, HSCL - 20 = 0 — 4, MADRS = 0 — 60, BDI - FS = 0 — 21 and CES - D = 0 — 60), with higher scores in all tools representing increasing
severity of depressive
symptoms.
The Hamilton Rating
Scale for Depression — 17 - Item42 was used to evaluate the
severity of depressive
symptoms.
Each weekly
symptom severity level was assigned as presented in Table2, based on the 6 - point PSR
scale for major depression and mania plus the 3 - point PSR
scale for rating minor depression / dysthymia, hypomania, DSM - IV atypical depression, DSM - III adjustment disorder with depressed mood, and RDC cyclothymic personality.
Diagnosis of PTSD and
symptom severity were established with the Clinician - Administered PTSD
Scale (CAPS), 12 a semistructured clinician interview consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition, Text Revision)(DSM - IV - TR).13 Posttraumatic stress disorder diagnostic status was based on meeting the DSM - IV - TR
symptom cluster criteria (to be counted as a
symptom, minimum frequency = 1 and intensity = 2) and a total CAPS
severity score of 45 or higher.14 Total CAPS
symptom severity was the primary outcome.
Main Outcome Measures Clinician - rated PTSD
symptom severity was the primary outcome and was assessed with the Clinician - Administered PTSD
Scale.
AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of
Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary
Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes
Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress
Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability
Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships
Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression
Scale; FES, Family Environment
Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction
Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant
Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking
Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R,
Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.
Outcomes: Behavioural or psychological
symptom frequency (eg, Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist),
severity (eg, Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Diseases Rating
Scale) or both (eg, Neuropsychiatry Inventory).
Change in the
severity of PTSD
symptoms, assessed by participants (PDS) and clinicians (clinician administered PTSD
scale (CAPS)-RRB-.
A PANSS
symptom severity score of > 3 on an item indicated a negative
symptom being present (
scale 1 — 7, where 1 =
symptom absent and 7 =
symptom extremely severe).
Severity of ADHD symptoms (Conners Abbreviated Symptom Questionnaire for teachers [ASQ - Teacher]-RRB-, tic severity (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale [YGTSS]-RRB-, and global functioning (Children's Global Assessment Scale [C - GA
Severity of ADHD
symptoms (Conners Abbreviated
Symptom Questionnaire for teachers [ASQ - Teacher]-RRB-, tic
severity (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale [YGTSS]-RRB-, and global functioning (Children's Global Assessment Scale [C - GA
severity (Yale Global Tic
Severity Scale [YGTSS]-RRB-, and global functioning (Children's Global Assessment Scale [C - GA
Severity Scale [YGTSS]-RRB-, and global functioning (Children's Global Assessment
Scale [C - GAS]-RRB-.
Three variables showed a significant contribution: allocation to cognitive behaviour therapy (B 2.064; SE 0.726; P = 3D0.0045; Exp (B) 7.878); duration of illness (B — 0.144; SE 0.054; P = 3D0.0079; Exp (B) 0.866);
severity of
symptoms on the psychiatric assessment
scale (B — 1.893; SE 0.815; P = 3D0.02; Exp (B) 0.151).
To be accepted into the trial, patients had to meet the following criteria: 18 to 65 years old; meeting diagnostic criteria for PTSD as determined by the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM - IV), 13 with PTSD being the main problem; scoring 20 or higher on the Posttraumatic Diagnostic
Scale (PDS), 14 indicating moderate to severe
symptom severity; and intervention starting within 6 months after the accident.
Symptom severity was assessed at baseline and annually using the Positive and Negative
Symptom Scale score.
Negative
symptoms and clinical
severity were assessed using five items from the schizophrenia Postive and Negative Syndrome
Scale (PANSS) negative
symptoms subscale (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, social withdrawal and verbal fluency).
Prognostic factors
Severity of positive and negative
symptoms (schedules for positive and negative
symptoms); course of illness over the past 2 years; level of functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning
scale (GAF)-RRB-; premorbid functioning (Premorbid Adjustment
scale); duration of untreated psychosis (interview for retrospective assessment of onset of schizophrenia); days of hospitalisation; number of contacts with psychiatric services; number of days in supported housing.
The co-occurrence of invisible
symptoms (fatigue, depression and apathy) was stated using validated, self - administered tools: Fatigue
Severity Scale (FSS); Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI - II); Apathy Evaluation...
Scale (AES).
Measures utilized include Life Stressors Checklist (LSC - R), the Global
Severity Index (GSI), the Social Role Functioning Index, the Addiction
Severity Index (ASI), the Current Exposure to Interpersonal Abuse (CEIA)
Scale, the Current Exposure to Other Stressors (CEOS) Scale, the PTSD Symptom Scale (PSS), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a six item safety scale, a three - item feeling Response — Dissociation Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping I
Scale, the Current Exposure to Other Stressors (CEOS)
Scale, the PTSD Symptom Scale (PSS), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a six item safety scale, a three - item feeling Response — Dissociation Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping I
Scale, the PTSD
Symptom Scale (PSS), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a six item safety scale, a three - item feeling Response — Dissociation Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping I
Scale (PSS), the Brief
Symptom Inventory (BSI), a six item safety
scale, a three - item feeling Response — Dissociation Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping I
scale, a three - item feeling Response — Dissociation
Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping I
Scale, and a nine item - Feeling Response - Trauma Coping Index.
Measures utilized include the Life Stressor Checklist — Revised [LSC - R], Global
Severity Index (GSI) from the Brief
Symptom Inventory, the Addiction
Severity Index (ASI), and the Posttraumatic
Symptom Scale.
Change in
severity of posttraumatic stress disorder
symptoms as measured by the National Stressful Events PTSD
Scale
Measures utilized include the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Spielberger State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Subjective Units of Disturbance (SUD), the Dissociative Experiences
Scale (DES), Impact of Events
Scale (IES), the Modified PTSD (MPTSD)
Scale, the Global
Severity Index (GSI), Positive
Symptom Distress subscale (PSD), and the Dissociative Interview Schedule (DIS).
Hospital Anxiety and Depression
scale (HAD).31 Fourteen depression and anxiety items are rated on by three individual options per item relating to
severity of the
symptom.
Compared with the TAU group, the IPT - A group showed significantly fewer clinician - reported depression
symptoms on the HAMD and BDI, significantly better functioning on the C - GAS, significantly better overall social functioning on the SAS - SR, and significantly greater clinical improvement and significantly greater decrease in clinical
severity on the CGI
scale.
Suicidality was assessed with 3 items (hopelessness, thoughts of death, and thoughts of suicide) from the SCL - 20.27 Physical
symptom severity was assessed with the PHQ - 15, a 15 - item
scale scored from 0 to 30.28 Health - related quality of life was assessed on the Short Form - 12 (SF - 12) subscales measuring physical health and mental health — related functioning.29 Subscales are normed for the general population so that mean and standard deviation are approximately 50 and 10, respectively.30 Pain intensity and interference were assessed with the Adapted Numeric Rating Scale for Pain31; each item is rated on a 0 - to - 10 Likert s
scale scored from 0 to 30.28 Health - related quality of life was assessed on the Short Form - 12 (SF - 12) subscales measuring physical health and mental health — related functioning.29 Subscales are normed for the general population so that mean and standard deviation are approximately 50 and 10, respectively.30 Pain intensity and interference were assessed with the Adapted Numeric Rating
Scale for Pain31; each item is rated on a 0 - to - 10 Likert s
Scale for Pain31; each item is rated on a 0 - to - 10 Likert
scalescale.
Primary outcomes were the Posttraumatic Diagnostic
Scale (PDS) 25,26 for PTSD
symptoms and the
Symptom Checklist Depression
Scale (SCL - 20) for depressive
symptoms.27 The PDS (17 items) assesses
severity of PTSD
symptoms over the prior 4 weeks with high internal consistency and test - retest reliability26; scores are summed and range from 0 to 51; scores of 10 or less are mild; 11 to 20, moderate; 21 to 35, moderate to severe; and at least 36, severe.
Participants classified as having dementia satisfied DSM - IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) criteria, had dementia
severity ≥ 1.0 on the Clinical Dementia Rating
Scale and exhibited
symptoms of dementia for at least 6 months.
Depression Anxiety Stress
Scale (DASS) has three subscales, each with seven items rating the
severity / frequency of
symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression, respectively.
Response (score of 1 or 2 (much or very much improved) on the Clinical Global Impressions - Improvement
scale); symptom severity or investigator defined response on closely related measures; symptom severity (clinician rated DSM based anxiety scales such as the Child Yale - Brown Obsessive - Compulsive Scale); adverse ev
scale);
symptom severity or investigator defined response on closely related measures;
symptom severity (clinician rated DSM based anxiety
scales such as the Child Yale - Brown Obsessive - Compulsive
Scale); adverse ev
Scale); adverse events.
Clinician - based autism
severity ratings (based on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) did not significantly predict parenting stress; however, parental report of the
severity of ASD - associated
symptoms (from the Social Responsiveness
Scale) showed a significant relation to stress.
Obsessive — compulsive
severity was measured using the Children's Yale - Brown Obsessive — Compulsive
Scale, and depressive
symptoms were rated using the Children's Depression Rating
Scale - Revised.
Methods: Four hundred seventy adults in Chieti, Italy, completed an anonymous and confidential survey regarding their childhood exposure to parental alienating behaviors (using the Baker Strategy Questionnaire), quality of the parent — child relationship (using Parental Bonding Instruments), self - esteem (using Rosenberg Self - Esteem
Scale), and global psychological distress (using Global
Severity Index of
Symptom Checklist -90-Revised).
The Dimensional Obsessive - Compulsive
Scale (DOCS) is a self - report instrument that assesses the
severity of the four most empirically supported OC
symptom dimensions (Contamination, Responsibility, Unacceptable Thoughts, and Symmetry).
Presence and
severity of child primary anxiety disorder (Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM - IV, child / parent versions), improvement in child presentation of anxiety (Clinical Global Impression — Improvement
scale), and change in child anxiety symptoms (Spence Children's Anxiety Scale, child / parent version and Child Anxiety Impact scale, parent version) were assessed at post-treatment and for those in the two active treatment groups, 6 months post-treat
scale), and change in child anxiety
symptoms (Spence Children's Anxiety
Scale, child / parent version and Child Anxiety Impact scale, parent version) were assessed at post-treatment and for those in the two active treatment groups, 6 months post-treat
Scale, child / parent version and Child Anxiety Impact
scale, parent version) were assessed at post-treatment and for those in the two active treatment groups, 6 months post-treat
scale, parent version) were assessed at post-treatment and for those in the two active treatment groups, 6 months post-treatment.