Mental health was assessed using the teacher, parent and self - report versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), including an impact section, used to
measure symptom dimensions and probability of psychiatric disorders.
Not exact matches
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.
The main problem with these
measures, however, is in the lack of general consensus about the content, number and structure of
symptom dimensions.
However, traditional objections to findings not based on clinical diagnostic categories are lessened by evidence that CMD are most validly represented as a single
dimension encompassing comorbid anxiety and depression.43 — 45 One important problem is that
measures such as the general health questionnaire may be prone to socioeconomic response bias, with those in lower occupational grades underreporting
symptoms.46
The
measure taps nine primary
symptom dimensions: Somatization, Obsessive - Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic Anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism.
The
measure taps nine primary
symptom dimensions: Somatization, Obsessive — Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic Anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism.
Four
dimensions of health - related quality of life were
measured: general health (self - reported general health), physical health (absence or presence of functional limitations and illness
symptoms), emotional health (the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and Rosenberg's self - esteem scale), and a school and social functioning scale.
The PTSD Checklist - Civilian Version (PCL - C), which has been used to
measure PTSD
symptoms among healthcare workers, was used in the present study.42 43 It consists of 17 self - report items, which comprise three
dimensions, namely, re-experiencing, avoidance / numbing and hyper - arousal.
To
measure depression and anxiety, the appropriate subscales of the short form of the
Symptom Checklist (SCL - 90), the Brief
Symptom Inventory (BSI)[32], were used to
measure the effects of treatment on psychological dysfunction in
dimensions related to
symptoms of posttraumatic stress.
Children's depressive
symptoms were
measured at age 8 (
Dimensions of Depression Profile for Children and Adolescents) and age 19 (CES - D).
Second, recent studies of other
dimensions of mother — child relationship quality have found that direct
measures are stronger predictors of depressive
symptoms than are indirect
measures of the same construct (Suitor, Gilligan, & Pillemer, 2011).
The standard of today in self - reports on mental health is composite
measures of the presence of mental health problems, for example DSM and ICD related
symptom clusters or broader
symptom clusters, e.g., emotional problems, conduct problems or even broader
dimensions reflecting internalised or externalised
symptoms [6 — 8].
Sevecke et al. (2009b) found that a significant relationship between internalizing
symptoms measured by the Youth Self Report (YSR) and the affective
dimension of psychopathy existed only for boys.