Sentences with phrase «mean symptom scores»

These 6 mean symptom scores served as the primary outcome measure for all analyses.

No significant age - related difference was found in the severity of symptoms cited before concussion (mean symptom score 6.77 in the younger group and 5.43 in the older group, p = 0.333).

Similarly, no significant age - related difference was found in the severity of symptoms cited after concussion (mean symptom score 19.40 in the younger group and 17.72 in the older group, p = 0.531).

After 12 months, mean symptoms scores for people in both groups had improved substantially, but there was no significant difference in the degree of symptom improvement between the groups.

Although mean symptoms scores fell in the nonclinical range, a relatively high percentage of youth were in the «high - risk» range for caregiver - reported symptoms as indicated by a t score > 60 based on general norms for the BASC.

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She emphasized, however, that King - Devick was only meant for use as an initial screen to identify athletes who should not be allowed to return to the game or practice and who should be referred for further, more comprehensive evaluation by a trained professional (e.g. assessment of balance, neurocognitive function, and scores on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale).

By greatly affected, I mean that they had chronic health symptoms that were severe, and they scored high on sensitivities to common chemicals, foods and medications,» says Miller.

The researchers used a combination of self - ratings and mother ratings to assess scores for obsessive, social, separation and generalized anxiety symptoms in 446 twin pairs with a mean age of 13.6 years, all enrolled in the Wisconsin Twin Project.

The researchers found that HAP participants maintained the benefits they showed at the end of treatment through the 12 - month period, with significantly lower symptom severity scores (adjusted mean difference in BDI - II:?

Food elimination based on IgG antibodies in irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial http://gut.bmj.com/content/53/10/1459.short «After 12 weeks, the true diet resulted in a 10 % greater reduction in symptom score than the sham diet (mean difference 39 (95 % confidence intervals (CI) 5 — 72); p = 0.024) with this value increasing to 26 % in fully compliant patients (difference 98 (95 % CI 52 — 144); p < 0.001).»

In terms of neurophysiological symptoms, mean scores of 0.43 pre-treatment and 0.34 post-treatment were not significantly different; however, subjective feelings of anxiety significantly changed between pre-treatment, 1.05, and post-treatment, 0.55.

Using a summary score of number of CD symptoms, structural equation modelling was used to investigate whether mean level and variation in CD increased with more recent cohorts, and whether any increase in variance could be explained by familial or non-familial factors.

Fifty percent of children (mean score = 15.72) scored in the clinical range and scores on subscales were between 36 percent for hyperactivity to 44 percent for emotional symptoms and conduct problems.

104 patients who were 18 — 70 years of age (mean age 38 y) and had panic disorder with or without agoraphobia according to DSM - III - R, a Hamilton Anxiety Scale score ⩾ 15, a Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale ⩽ 20, symptoms lasting ⩾ 3 months, and no psychological treatment for panic disorder and agoraphobia in the preceding 6 months.

At 16 weeks, depressive symptoms were still significantly reduced with IPT - A, but improvements in global functioning were slightly attenuated (mean HAM - D score: 6.9 v 10.6, p = 0.04, effect size 0.51 (95 % CI 0.003 to 1.02); C - GAS trend to improvement, p = 0.06).

Efficacy (as a continuous outcome), measured by the overall mean change scores on depressive symptom scales (self - rated or assessor - rated), for example, Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS - R) 32 and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) 33 from baseline to endpoint.

Patients: In total, 226 low - income mothers with clinically significant depressive symptoms (Centre for Epidemiological Studies — Depression Scale score ≥ 16) and their infants / toddlers (mean age 24.9 months) were enrolled in Early Head Start Enrichment Programmes for low - income children.

At 12 weeks, the intervention group adjusted mean score for depressive symptoms on the BDI - II was significantly lower than the control group by 5.8 points (95 % CI − 11.1 to − 0.5) after adjusting for baseline depression scores, anxiety, sociodemographics, psychotropic medication use and clustering by practice.

After controlling for the child's age and sex and adjusting for baseline severity of child and maternal symptoms, there was a significantly larger decrease in internalizing (adjusted mean score difference, 8.6; P <.001), externalizing (6.6; P =.004), and total (8.7; P <.001) symptoms among children of mothers who had a remission from major depressive disorder over the 3 - month period than among children of mothers whose major depressive disorder did not remit (Table 4).

The mean scores for loneliness and depressive symptoms, and the prevalence of major depressive episodes are significantly higher in the empty - nest group (all p < 0.05).

Results PTSD symptom severity (score range, 0 - 136) was significantly more improved in the couple therapy condition than in the wait - list condition (mean change difference, − 23.21; 95 % CI, − 37.87 to − 8.55).

Controlled effect sizes are the differences between the mean 3 - month PTSD symptom scores for CT vs RA and SH vs RA, divided by the pooled SD of the 2 conditions compared.34

This pattern of change in means over the decade between the 2005 study and ours appears consistent with the small, but significant, increases observed between 2007 and 2012 in the self - report subscale means for Total Difficulties, Emotional Symptoms, Peer Relationship Problems and Hyperactivity - Inattention (but a decrease in Conduct Problems) in nationally representative New Zealand samples of children aged 12 — 15 years, 28 and with a similar increase in Emotional Symptoms and decrease in Conduct Problems between 2009 and 2014 in English community samples of children aged 11 — 13 years.29 The mean PLE score in the MCS sample aligned closely with that reported previously for a relatively deprived inner - city London, UK, community sample aged 9 — 12 years19 using these same nine items, although the overall prevalence of a «Certainly True» to at least one of the nine items in the MCS (52.2 %) was lower than that obtained in the London sample (66.0 %).8

The mean score for PTSD symptoms on PCL - C was 40.60 (SD = 15.01).

Figure 1 shows an inverse relationship (Spearman's rho r = − 0.149, P = 0.01) between depressive symptom score and mean individual daily step count.

Incidence of major depression (DSM - IV), and depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES - D), score range 0 — 60, higher score means more symptoms).

In particular their scores for emotional symptoms are very high; the mean emotional symptoms score is three times as high as the overall average.

The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations between BIQ - SF scores of parents and teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).

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 scale.

Nevertheless, both caregiver and self - report of externalizing symptoms were associated with male gender and adherence, and utilizing mean scores of the two reporters yielded a good model fit.

At 13 months, early CBT significantly reduced symptoms of PTSD measured by IES, compared with usual care (intention to treat analysis; adjusted mean difference in IES score: CBT v usual care 8.4, 95 % CI 2.4 to 14.4).

Individual depressive symptom scores were established by computing the mean score of these five items (α = 0.78).

To create quasi-diagnostic variables that closely mirror DSM - IV diagnoses, children were coded with a 1 if they endorsed the requisite symptoms and demonstrated significant distress (score of 3 or 4 on distress questions) or impaired functionality / burden (a score of +2 standard deviations above the mean on total burden variable).

Changes in depressive symptoms, rumination, cognitive reactivity, mindfulness skills, and self - compassion from pre to post treatment, grouped by the mean teacher competence score from lowest to highest.

DASS scores for depressive symptoms for our sample of patients with pain (mean, 13.61; SD, 11.54) were higher than those of a healthy community sample (mean, 5.06; SD, 7.57) and lower than those of a sample of (non-pain) patients with diagnosed mood disorders (mean, 17.24; SD, 11.79).7 Only 30.3 % of our patients with pain scored higher than the mean score of the mood disorder group.

On the syndrome scales, adolescents with IBD were reported to have more anxious or depressed symptoms, t (89) = 2.52, p <.05, and social problems, t (89) = 2.75, p <.01, with mean scores in the normal range.

As follow - up depressive symptom (Time T) scores are a within - subject variable, such scores were centered at each participant's mean such that scores reflect upwards or downwards fluctuations in an individual's level of depressive symptoms compared to his or her mean level of symptoms.

Our study investigated a sample of clinically aggressive children and mothers scoring high on depression symptoms (59 % scored in the clinical range and the mean score of the mothers was within the mildly depressed range).

Fig. 1 shows that when there are high levels of stressful war events (1 standard deviation above the mean total number of stressful war events) increasing levels of peer attachment are associated with decreasing post-traumatic stress symptom scores (β = − 0.17, 95 % CI = − 0.48 — 0.14, p = 0.28).

Concerning parental depressive symptoms, results showed that mean scores for both mothers and fathers were lower than the cutoff for clinical depression, although 14 women (21.5 %) and 6 men (9.2 %) obtained scores higher than the cutoff for clinical depression.