Sentences with phrase «measured mood and anxiety»

Researchers measured mood and anxiety scales for all participants at the start of the study and at weeks 4, 8, and 12.

Not exact matches

One of the apps assesses measures of mood and anxiety; the other asks questions related to life issues including physical and mental health, addictions, cultural factors and environmental stress.

This was also true for their measures of empathy, interpersonal competencies, impulsivity, anxiety, mood, and executive control.

But in addition to the short - term spritz of mood - boosting dopamine, endorphins, and serotonin, the psychoactive pleasure - palooza you get from cocoa can reduce measures of stress and anxiety.

«We are measuring and assessing things like perceived stress, mood, psychological resilience and the occurrence of anxiety - producing thoughts,» he says.

These include patient - reported outcome measures on fatigue (Chalder Fatigue Scale), 10 physical function (SF - 36), 11 mood (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HADS), 12 pain (visual analogue pain rating scale), sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale) 13 and quality of life (EQ - 5D).14 Other services used one or more of the NOD outcome measures listed above, plus additional outcome measures including the Work and Social Adjustment Scale.15

Fear of specific emotions (depressed mood, anxiety, anger and positive affect)(as measured by ACS) was correlated with the use of different ER strategies.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

It is a brief self - report 14 - item scale designed to measure the two most common aspects of mood disorder (anxiety and depression) on a 0 - 3 verbal numerical scale (0: No distress - 3: maximum distress).

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the effectiveness of the Solution - Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) intervention on treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) 17 is a brief affective measure designed to detect mood disorder in hospital populations.

Social phobia, measured with composite scale (based on 7 individual social phobia measures); general mood assessment (Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-RRB- scales.