(15) Another study reported benefit on
overall symptoms scores, with 88 % of patients reported as achieving «mild - to - excellent improvement in IBS symptoms».
Not exact matches
The increasing role played by non-elected technocrats, increased voter abstention and curbs on civil liberties are among the main
symptoms of this global malaise, the EIU said, noting that almost half of the 167 countries covered by its index registered a decline in
overall scores between 2006 and 2016.
An
overall «distress»
score is also calculated for each
symptom on a scale from 0 — 16, by multiplying the frequency by severity
scores [2, 27, 28].
In screenings before the study began,
scores for depressive
symptoms and
overall quality of life were similar for both groups.
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.
Primary outcomes:
overall symptoms (positive, negative, and neurotic
symptoms combined); depression / anxiety; negative and positive
symptoms;
overall functioning (combination of function
scores from measures such as the Global Assessment Scale and Global Assessment of Functioning scale); remission.
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
In particular their
scores for emotional
symptoms are very high; the mean emotional
symptoms score is three times as high as the
overall average.
Notably, and as seen in section 2.1 above, the
overall proportions of children with
scores in the abnormal range for emotional
symptoms and peer problems is quite small.
Statistically significant changes in pre-treatment
scores on measures of PTSD
symptoms, depression,
overall health, and work and social functioning were observed.