Sentences with phrase «measures depressive feelings»
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Depression in fathers was assessed using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form, a validated measure used to identify the presence of a major depressive episode within the previous year.24 Fathers were asked 2 stem questions: (1) «During the past 12 months, has there ever been a time when you felt sad, blue, or depressed for 2 or more weeks in a row?»
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In this study, the Beck Depression Inventory was used to measure depressive symptoms such as low mood, losing interest in doing things, loss of appetite, feeling worthless and having suicidal tendencies.
After adjusting for confounding factors such as maternal depression, family income and parental alcohol use, the researchers found that for every 3 - point (one standard deviation) increase on the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ; a commonly - used measure of depressive symptoms) on the part of fathers, there was an associated 0.2 - point increase in the adolescent's MFQ score.
The study involved collection of medical and psychiatric history information and completion of questionnaires measuring depressive symptoms, feelings of well - being, and personality traits.
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.
Only a short, albeit validated, self - report scale (Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire) was used to assess depressive symptoms, meaning that assessment of the primary outcome measure was not blind.
These measures of external validity were chosen to both replicate (depressive symptoms, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems) and extend (self - worth and restrictive eating) previous research with the FEEL - KJ.