Sentences with phrase «few diagnostic measures»

Spence and Shortt (2007) have also commented on low power, limited follow - ups, lack of random assignment, use of no - intervention control conditions, few diagnostic measures and limited use of blind assessors.

Not exact matches

If this is not diagnostic, a thyroid scan can be performed at a veterinary referral center or the T4 can be measured again in a few weeks.

Given that children are not yet through the period of risk for the development of major depression and that so few children in the comparison group met diagnostic criteria for any depressive disorder, the dimensional severity measure derived from the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire was used in subsequent analyses examining predictors of depression in the children.

Few of these studies, however, used the contemporary diagnostic criteria for depression or standardized outcome measures.