Intervention studies for bereaved individuals often recruited participants without regard to symptom status and used supportive interventions.46, 47 A recent meta - analysis of bereavement support interventions showed an effect size of 0.15.48 However, 2 earlier studies49, 50 examined efficacy of an exposure - based treatment for individuals considered to have pathological grief and showed significant treatment effects
on measures of anxiety and depression.
On measures of anxiety and alcohol use there was no difference between men whose partners were depressed and men whose partners weren't (Roberts et al, 2006).
Not exact matches
As a result
of all this
anxiety, we've accepted tighter security
measures at airports and public buildings, despite the potential infringement
on personal rights.
More disturbing still, the «
anxiety / insecurity woozle» was based
on three questions taken from a validated test that assesses infants» readiness to begin talking — a three item «scale» the authors designed and interpreted as a
measure of infant
anxiety and insecurity.
Breastfeeding / bedsharing mothers do the best
of all groups
on measures of sleep, depression, and
anxiety.
«
Measures of personality,
anxiety and depression might moderate the effects
of writing
on falling asleep, and that could be explored in an investigation with a larger sample,» he said.
Of all the symptoms
measured,
anxiety stood out as having the greatest impact
on thinking skills, and the impact was much greater
on women with HIV.
Approximately half
of the students with
anxiety or depression reported not having supportive relationships with their PIs, as
measured in a variety
of ways, including whether the students feel valued, whether their PIs have a positive impact
on their mental well - being, and whether they feel that their PIs are assets to their careers.
So, to study effective
anxiety and stress reduction techniques for those experiencing infertility, the team at Fertility Centers
of Illinois and Pulling Down the Moon completed a Yoga for Fertility program and
measured the impact
on patients.
«I think the benefits
of spending time outdoors can be felt more than they can be
measured by our current instruments,» says holistic psychiatrist and one
of mbg's trusted sleep and
anxiety experts Ellen Vora, M.D. «There's something about the smell
of fresh air, trees, and dirt; the impact the colors and views
of nature have
on our eyes; the ways our nervous system recalibrates when it hears the subtle sounds
of birds and a breeze passing through leaves.
EFT has been found to be an «evidence - based» practice for
anxiety, depression, phobias and PTSD when
measured against the standards
of the American Psychological Association's Division 12 Task Force
on Empirically Validated Treatments.
Self - perception
on sexual desire, score for Hamilton test for depression, and Hamilton test for
anxiety were
measured at 4, 8 and 12 weeks
of treatment.
Anxiety and depression are indirect measures of negative affect and therefore resulted in a lower strength of evidence than that for the outcome of mantra on a
Anxiety and depression are indirect
measures of negative affect and therefore resulted in a lower strength
of evidence than that for the outcome
of mantra
on anxietyanxiety.
One recent study published in the Indian Journal
of Psychological Medicine showed that participants who regularly took Ashwagandha scored better
on three different tests, each
measuring stress,
anxiety, and overall wellbeing.
A lot
of the
anxiety shy men feel when they go
on dates revolves around feeling like they're being judged and feeling like they just aren't going to
measure up under their date's scrutiny.
She said: «What it does demonstrate to us is an unprecedented level
of anxiety in schools, and that is no doubt fuelled by increasing expectations
on them, and particularly the way schools and individual teachers are
measured in terms
of accountability pressures, we can quite see that.
The article is based
on a large study
of more than 1300 owners and
measured the dog trait factors
of «Obedience», «Aggressions / excitability» and «
anxiety / Fearfulness».
Critical mass is not achieved by either an asymptomatic condition
on its own or by adding to that condition a quantity
of anxiety and a
measure of risk
of contracting a fatal condition.
Sources
of ethnic differences between Asian American and White American college students
on measures of depression and social
anxiety
The study utilized a
measure for cumulative traumas that is based
on the DBTF and
measures of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cumulative trauma related disorders (CTD), depression,
anxiety, collective annihilation
anxiety (AA), identity salience, and fear
of death.
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
Generalised
Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD - 7) 64 measures anxiety over 2 weeks, via a seven - item scale, and an additional item to assess the impact of anxiety on funct
Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD - 7) 64
measures anxiety over 2 weeks, via a seven - item scale, and an additional item to assess the impact of anxiety on funct
anxiety over 2 weeks, via a seven - item scale, and an additional item to assess the impact
of anxiety on funct
anxiety on functioning.
This study presents a follow - up
of our earlier study
on an online mindfulness course that examined change in perceived stress.41 It extends our previous study by examining the effect
of the course
on depression and
anxiety symptoms, benchmarking the effects against other studies by using
measures that are now widely used in primary care practices in the UK.
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).
Furthermore, there was no significant two - way interaction between attachment dimensions and no three - way interaction
of partner presence, attachment
anxiety and attachment avoidance
on any outcome
measures (see Table 2), indicating that the results were driven by the attachment avoidance dimension.
This 36 - item self - report
measure of AAS yields continuous scores
on attachment
anxiety (18 items, e.g. «I often worry that my partner will not want to stay with me»; from 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree) and attachment avoidance (18 items, e.g. «I find it difficult to allow myself to depend
on romantic partners») dimensions.
Patients completed the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI; score range, 0 - 63), 19 the trait (score range, 10 - 40) and anger expression (score range, 0 - 72) subscales
of the State - Trait Anger Expression Inventory, 20 and the state subscale
of the State - Trait
Anxiety Inventory (score range, 20 - 80).21 Higher scores
on all
measures indicate greater symptom severity.
In a recent study, researchers randomly assigned 293 men and women (averaging just under 19 years
of age) to either a bogus pipeline condition, in which they were hooked to a lie detector and reminded that the equipment would detect their deceit before answering questions verbally, or to an anonymous questionnaire condition, in which they answered questions
on a paper and pencil survey while hooked to the same machine.1 However, in the anonymous questionnaire condition, researchers told the participants that the purpose
of the machine was to
measure participants»
anxiety prior to the filling out the survey (and were not told that it would flag false answers).
Primary efficacy
measure: response (Clinical Global Impressions Scale - Improvement (CGI - I) score
of very much or much improved based
on the assessor's perception
of improvement,
anxiety scale scores and patient self - report).
1) How are scores
on the SRLTAS correlated with scores from administration
of other test
anxiety measures?
While
on NHS counselling placement with us, therapists learn how to handle NHS paperwork, how to use the IAPTus diary system, and how to understand patient
measures of depression and
anxiety.
Jacobson methodology, in distinguishing between improvement and recovery
on a standardized
measure of general vulnerability to
anxiety, provides a stringent but clinically more meaningful evaluation
of the efficacy
of psychological therapies with GAD than has been available hitherto.
One aspect
of concern
of depression and
anxiety disorders is the greater prevalence
of these disorders among adolescent and adult's females may simply be more likely than adolescent males to endorse all items
on common
measures of depression and
anxiety because adolescent females are more willing to disclose personal information.
These data indicate gender differentially impacts the benefit
of valuing athletics
on measures of athletic
anxiety and general
measures of psychological well being.
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.
SET - C was superior to fluoxetine
on each
of these
measures and was the only treatment superior to placebo in terms
of improving social skills, decreasing
anxiety in specific social interactions, and enhancing ratings
of social competence.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) The purpose
of this study was to explore the effects
of Child - Centered Play Therapy (CCPT)
on young children with
anxiety symptoms.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) This study compared individual Coping Cat (CBT) and child - centered therapy (CCT) for child
anxiety disorders
on rates
of treatment response and recovery at post-treatment and one - year follow - up, as well as
on real - world
measures of emotional functioning.
Steinberg, in a review
of authoritative parenting studies, reports that adolescents from homes where authoritative parenting is the norm achieve more in school, report less depression and
anxiety, and tend to score higher
on measures of self - reliance and self - esteem.
On measures of parental adjustment, there was no significant difference in conditions at post-intervention based on mothers» reports of depression, anxiety, stress, and conflict with partners over parenting issue
On measures of parental adjustment, there was no significant difference in conditions at post-intervention based
on mothers» reports of depression, anxiety, stress, and conflict with partners over parenting issue
on mothers» reports
of depression,
anxiety, stress, and conflict with partners over parenting issues.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) The study examined the impact
of a 12 - week trial
of Cool Kids Outreach (bibliotherapy materials based
on the Cool Kids
anxiety program) for parents
of children with
anxiety disorders.
Measures utilized include therapists conducted semistructured interviews using an instrument based
on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders — IV — Text Revision (DSM - IV - TR), the Reaction to Treatment Questionnaire (RTQ), the Beck
Anxiety Inventory, Global Assessment
of Functioning Scale (GAF), Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI), Quality
of Life Index (QOLI), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SLS), the Kentucky Inventory
of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI — II), the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ), and the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ).
Results indicated that children in the intervention group improved significantly more
on several
measures of anxiety than did waiting - list controls.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) The current study evaluated the effectiveness
of the Family Foundations (FF) program
on coparenting; parental depression and
anxiety; distress in the parent - infant relationship; and infant regulatory competence (sleep, attention duration, soothability).
Additional benefits for SNAP were observed
on measures of depression and
anxiety.
Results indicate that significantly greater improvements found with EMDR were maintained
on measures of PTSD, depression,
anxiety, and general symptoms.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) The study examined the impact
of a 12 - week trial
of bibliotherapy materials based
on the Cool Kids
anxiety program for parents
of children with
anxiety disorders.
Mean scores
on measures of trait
anxiety, frequency
of the experience
of depressive symptoms, optimism, and neuroticism for rapid regulating (N = 17) and nonregulating (N = 17) older adults.
However, almost all
of the correlations were positive, indicating that residual gains
on outcome
measures were associated with higher rather than lower mean WAI - S scores, except in the relation between working alliance and
anxiety.