The phrase
"clinical severity" refers to how serious or severe a medical condition or illness is. It describes the level of impact the condition has on a person's health and how much it affects their daily life.
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Important mental health services are provided to college students by college based counselling services, and college students do experience mental health problems
of clinical severity.
Ratings were made on a scale of 0 to 6 with a rating of 4 or more indicating clinical levels of severity and a rating of 3 indicating
borderline clinical severity.
Principal anxiety or any anxiety diagnosis (diagnosis considered present if
Clinical Severity Rating (CSR) > 4 based on structured interview with...
Using a cut off point of 127 as recommended by Eyberg, 7 approximately one fifth of children (17.9 %, n = 193) were defined as having a behaviour problem of
clinical severity on this scale.
Efficient CNV breakpoint analysis reveals unexpected structural complexity and correlation of dosage - sensitive genes
with clinical severity in genomic disorders.
(B) Mean percentage initial body weight of recipients transplanted as in (A) over the first 50 d. (C) Recipient mice were assessed weekly
for clinical severity of GVHD; clinical scores are shown.
Approximately two thirds of the children who had already received treatment for behaviour problems continued to have problems of
clinical severity at the time of the survey, and most of the children with behaviour problems had received no treatment at all.
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.
Callous — unemotional traits are associated with
clinical severity in referred boys with conduct problems
The results of this survey confirm the findings of other studies13 indicating that behaviour problems of
clinical severity affect one in five children.
The impact
of clinical severity on outcomes of a randomised controlled trial of mentalisation - based treatment (MBT) was contrasted with structured clinical management (SCM).
H1N1 swine flu is spreading fast enough to justify the preparations for a pandemic, say epidemiologists who've analysed its spread — though there is still uncertainty about its clinical severity
«Similar to what you find with bipolar disorder in the nonperinatal population, the overall level of
clinical severity and functional impairment really stands out as being of concern,» said Cynthia Battle, associate professor (research) of psychiatry and human behavior in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Administration of VPA significantly attenuated
the clinical severity of GVHD, the histopathology of GVHD - involved organs, and the overall mortality from GVHD.
Currently, it is believed that restricted protein, restricted calcium diets may help to prevent this condition, or lessen
its clinical severity.
The degree to which the muscle walls thicken ultimately determines
the clinical severity of the disease — some cats (and people) have mild disease, others have severe disease.
As species & serovar designations are continuously refined / changed & because serovar isolates do not directly correlate to
clinical severity or form of disease, memorizing specifics of phylogeny is generally not necessary.
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).
Propensity score matching was used to create a weighted comparison group of adolescents who had similar demographic characteristics,
clinical severity, and treatment retention as the group of emerging adults (ages 18 - 25).
Children were assigned a diagnosis if either the parent or child reported that symptoms were causing significant interference in functioning, and if
a Clinical Severity Rating (CSR) of 4 or more was assigned (in accordance with the clinician's manual of the ADIS - IV; Silverman and Albano 1996).