We're saying there's one
symptom domain that we may be able to improve.»
The idea of
symptom domains rather than disease categories also extends to the neurobiology of mental illness.
«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness of novel mechanisms in separate negative
symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance of success before launching large phase III trials.
Questionnaire assessments occurred at orientation and baseline visit 1 and targeted smoking history, dependence, and affective and psychiatric
symptom domains.
Background: In addition to other
symptom domains, Huntington's disease (HD) is also characterized by cognitive disturbances that substantially diminish quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
They also continue to be divided into the two major
symptom domains, inattention and hyperactivity / impulsivity, and six symptoms in one domain are still required for an ADHD diagnosis.
This initial assessment of skills training plus exposure therapy found benefits in many
symptom domains.
The severity of subclinical positive and negative symptoms was calculated by summing the individual severity subscales within
each symptom domain.
Third, internalizing and externalizing symptoms are higher - order
symptom domains composed of multiple symptom clusters.
We explore the associations among EF, ToM, and
symptom domains of ASD and ADHD and address the above challenges in the present study.
Thus, DSM oriented questionnaires have been developed during recent years with dimensions of affective, anxiety and conduct problems [8, 9] as well as broader dimensions of
symptom domains such as internalised and externalised problems.
Not exact matches
There are cases in which the presentation of
symptoms are broad, across multiple sensory systems impacting every aspect of daily life to those in which the sensory
symptoms are restricted to a single sensory
domain with less significant interference with daily life.
«My co-authors and I developed a method that instead captures
symptom dimensions, or sets of
symptoms, informed by the National Institute of Mental Health Research
Domain Criteria,» continued Dr. McCoy.
Lu explains that the CES - D is a commonly used self - report tool to assess depressive
symptoms in community - based populations, and the 20 items are usually grouped into four major
domains: depression affect, somatic
symptoms, interpersonal relations, and positive affect.
In one
domain, organization and motivation for work, the severity of reported impairment predicted the degree of response to LDX treatment such that women with greater severity of
symptoms in this
domain found the greatest improvement with LDX treatment.
Preliminary data show that all executive function
domains, except managing affective interference, showed a significant reduction in severity of
symptoms during active LDX treatment versus treatment with placebo.
Administration of standardized questionnaires to measure the 3
domains of the 1994 CFS case definition [23]: the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) to measure 5 dimensions of fatigue [28] the Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form 36 (SF - 36) to evaluate 8 dimensions of functional impairment [29]; and the CDC
Symptom Inventory to evaluate occurrence / frequency / severity of the 8 CFS - accompanying
symptoms [30]; 2.
Questions in the QIDS - SR - 116 correlate with the nine DSM - IV
symptom criterion
domains, Including: Sleep disturbance (initial, middle, and late insomnia or hypersomnia)(Q 1 - 4), Sad mood (Q 5), Decrease / increase in appetite / weight (Q 6 - 9), Concentration (Q 10), Self - criticism (Q 11), Suicidal ideation (Q 12), Interest (Q 13), Energy / fatigue (Q 14), Psychomotor agitation / retardation (Q 15 - 16).
Controlled trials and case studies suggest that consistent yoga practice is associated with improvements across a number of
domains including tremor reduction, improved muscle strength, balance, posture, flexibility, and functional mobility, better cardiac health, and fewer
symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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.
The primary
domains assessed included (1) depression
symptoms as measuredby the clinician - rated HAMD and self - reported Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) 29; (2) global functioning as measured by the clinician - ratedClinical Global Impressions scale (CGI) 30 andC - GAS; and (3) social functioning as measured by the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (SAS - SR).31 Higher scores on the HAMD and BDIindicate a greater number of
symptoms; on the CGI and C - GAS, better functioning; and on the SAS - SR, worse functioning.
Within the maternal
domain, dominant themes included 1) emotional health: all respondents indicated that a mother's emotional health greatly affects her child's well being; 2) self - efficacy: mothers believed in the importance of accepting responsibility for monitoring their own well being and that of their child; and 3) support systems: all mothers expressed the need to share parenting experiences, stressors, and depressive
symptoms with someone (most preferred to speak with family or friends rather than with their child's pediatrician).
Within the interaction
domain, 2 themes emerged: 1) communication: open communication with a pediatrician who listens well was perceived by mothers in all groups as very important, and 2) trust: mothers trust pediatricians with their child's health, but many were hesitant to discuss their own stress or depressive
symptoms.
The MOCI is a 30 - item true / false questionnaire assessing OCD
symptoms across four
domains: Washing, Checking, Doubting / Conscientiousness, and Slowness.
The CBCL was administered to mothers to assess child social functioning in 3
domains — activities, socialization, and school functioning — and to assess
symptoms associated with behavioral and emotional disorders.
A 2 - to 4 - year window may exist between initial presentation of
symptoms and the development of a disorder, suggesting an opportunity to intervene before problems become more serious in children.6 In recent years, many pediatricians have taken advantage of more widely disseminated public
domain screening tools and have used emerging computer technology to facilitate behavioral / emotional screening.
There is also inconsistency regarding studying anxiety and depressive
symptoms as a single «internalizing
domain» or as two clinically - distinct presentations.6, 7 Similar issues with how to classify
symptoms are reflected in the lack of consensus as to whether emotional problems should be conceptualized and studied in a categorical versus dimensional fashion.8 Diagnostic criteria (DSM - IV - TR) 9 are often inappropriate for young children and do not capture developmentally - salient types of impairment (e.g., disruption in family routine), which make it difficult to apply psychiatric research methods.
An alternative and potentially fruitful strategy would be to assess multiple relevant
domains of externalizing
symptoms in our research and clinical endeavors (e.g., aggression, conduct problems, high risk behaviors, substance use, and risky sexual behaviors).
The Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank sum test was used for outcome measures which were not normally distributed (ECBI intensity and problem scores, SDQ conduct, emotional, peer problems, prosocial and impact scores, PSI parent child interaction
domain, GHQ somatic
symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression and total scores, and the SES).
Principal components analysis of item - level Q - Sort data yielded two state of mind (dismissing vs. free to evaluate and preoccupied vs. not) and two inferred experience (maternal and paternal) components that were associated with two
domains of theoretical significance to attachment theory: interpersonal functioning in a romantic context and
symptoms of psychopathology.
Researchers also explored uncertainty in one's self, the partner, and the relationship and found that when uncertainty increased in any
domain, it coincided with increases in depressive
symptoms.
Likewise, the two subscales «sadness» (depressive
symptoms) and «worries» (anxiety
symptoms) correlated significantly higher with each other (r =.48) than with all other constructs in the
domain (−.40 to.08).
The pacing and ordering of RRFT components are flexible and determined by the needs of each family and
symptom severity in each
domain.
Positive outcomes favoring the Seeking Safety condition were found in various
domains including substance use and associated problems (on the Personal Experiences Scale and the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale), some trauma - related
symptoms (on the Trauma
Symptom Checklist for Children), cognitions related to SUD and PTSD (the Reasons for Using Scale and the World Assumptions Scale), and various psychopathology (on the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale).
Results indicated that compared with youths in the control group, youths in the Together Facing the Challenge group showed improvement on the three focal
domains —
symptoms, behaviors, and strengths.
2 Throughout this report, to avoid over-repetition, the four difficulty sub-scales of the SDQ - conduct problems, emotional
symptoms, hyperactivity / inattention and peer problems - will be referred to variously as sub-scales or behavioural
domains.
Those who displayed the most problematic behaviour often had higher than average difficulties in several
domains although their core difficulty was different - one being hyperactivity, the other emotional
symptoms.
The open parent, teacher, and child ratings for
domains 1 through 5 were augmented by blinded ratings of school - based ADHD and oppositional / aggressive
symptoms using the Abikoff Classroom Observational System35 and social skills and peer relations using peer sociometric procedures.
Children completed a measure of their generalized conceptions of relationships in the peer
domain and their level of depressive
symptoms.
Since adolescence is characterized by changes in the emotional, social and academic
domain, which can impact emotional well - being (Steinberg 2005b), it is important to assess whether the association between depressive
symptoms and subsequent academic, social and emotional self - efficacy levels show the same pattern in early compared to middle adolescence.
Figure 1 shows the 4 RR analyses selected to highlight findings from different
domains, as well as from raters who were likely to witness the target behaviors: hyperactivity - impulsivity (a core ADHD
symptom)(teacher report), internalizing
symptoms (parent report), social skills (teacher report), and parent - child arguing (power assertion, parent report).
This study examined the differential developmental significance of multiple
domains of peer reputation in childhood for current and future competence and
symptoms.
Indicators of growth in externalizing and internalizing
symptoms were derived from multiple
domain growth models and used in person - centered growth mixture analyses.
When the Sensitive - Isolated predictors were considered, academic and job competence at the 10 - year follow - up were predicted uniquely and negatively by peer exclusion, problems in the social and romantic
domains were predicted distinctively by withdrawal from peers, and internalizing
symptoms were uniquely predicted by childhood reputation as Sad - Sensitive.
For internalizing
symptoms, the relatively greater improvements for subjects given combined treatment are particularly noteworthy, as none of our treatments were designed to address this
domain specifically.
Subclinical
symptoms were measured with the Comprehensive Assessment of At - Risk Mental States (CAARMS)[37], which includes subscales assessing seven
domains of the psychosis prodrome.
The self - efficacy
domains did not predict subsequent levels of depressive
symptoms.
We used a 3 - year cross-sequential longitudinal design to examine the relations between self - efficacy judgments in three different
domains (academic, social, resisting negative peer influences), cultural identity, theories of intelligence, and depressive
symptoms.
Perceiving support from all three
domains was associated with the lowest depressive
symptoms.
Negative cognitive style in the interpersonal
domain was positively related to depressive
symptoms in both girls and boys, except in early adolescent girls reporting few stressors.