Results indicated improved mental health scores, decreased
psychological distress scores, and increased social support scores.
4) Relationship between psychological distress related problem scores and
psychological distress scores (Table 5): For all patients, psychological distress related problem scores from high to low were: health, emotion, trifles and communications.
The most significant control variables indicated an increase in the expected
psychological distress score among those who were younger, female, in fair or poor personal health, had at least one chronic health condition, were current smokers or did not average the recommended range of seven to nine hours of sleep per day.
Not exact matches
With a theoretical range of 0 to 24, higher
scores on the K6 represent increased
psychological distress and
scores above 13 are correlated with having a mental disorder of some type.
Individuals who
scored highly for symptoms of
psychological distress were more likely to later die from liver disease than those with lower
scores, the team says.
Women in the top tertile of the omnivore nutrient pattern had better overall poor health
scores than those in the bottom tertile and had lower odds of
psychological distress, such as anxiety and depression.
Percentages of adults with screen - positive depression (Patient Health Questionnaire - 2
score of ≥ 3) and adjusted odds ratios (AORs) of the effects of sociodemographic characteristics on odds of screen - positive depression; percentages with treatment for screen - positive depression and AORs; percentages with any treatment of depression and AORs stratified by presence of serious
psychological distress (Kessler 6 scale
score of ≥ 13); and percentages with depression treatment by health care professional group (psychiatrists, other health care professionals, and general medical providers); and type of depression treatment (antidepressants, psychotherapy, and both) all stratified by
distress level.
Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable
distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17
score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off
score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off
score for depression, the term «
distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those
distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low
psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.
The total
scores range from 0 to 42, with higher
scores indicating greater
psychological distress.
Psychological distress was measured on the 12 - item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ - 12) with
score 0 indicating...
Ordinal categories of the K - 10
scores were used to define well (< 20), mild (20 — 24), moderate (25 — 29) and severe (≥ 30)
psychological distress.
It is a 12 - item tool with dichotomous
scoring method (0 -0-1-1), which determines the point prevalence of
psychological distress or «caseness», with the most widely used threshold being ≥ 4.37 The
scores, relating to symptoms over the previous «few weeks», range from 0 to 12, with 0 indicating no evidence of probable mental ill health, 1 — 3 indicating less than optimal mental health and 4 or more indicating probable mental ill health.
Psychological distress: The BSI 1827 assessed psychological distress through three subscales of depression, anxiety and somatisation, and also yields an overall distress sc
Psychological distress: The BSI 1827 assessed
psychological distress through three subscales of depression, anxiety and somatisation, and also yields an overall distress sc
psychological distress through three subscales of depression, anxiety and somatisation, and also yields an overall
distress score, the GSI.
Participants were identified using a two - stage screening process, involving an initial survey to identify those with possible depression (
score ⩾ 9 on the K - 6 screen for
psychological distress) followed by telephone screening using the QIDS - SR.
The Kessler - 10 scale (K - 10) was used to measure non-specific
psychological distress during the month preceding the interview.27 A continuous K - 10
score was calculated by summing individual - item responses such that a higher
score indicated greater frequency of symptoms of
psychological distress.
Results Of the 571 mother — infant pairs, 26 % of women reported hazardous alcohol consumption (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - C
score ≥ 3) periconception periods, 11 % reported depressive symptoms, 7 % reported non-specific
psychological distress and 15 % reported experiencing physical or
psychological IPV.
Using cut - off
scores for the specific questionnaires, we consider psychopathology as a binary variable (yes / no psychotic disorder; yes / no
psychological distress)
psychological distress measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)(
scored as 0 — 12 with a cut - off of 0 — 1 and 2 — 12 for minimisation);
Assessment:
Psychological distress was assessed using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K - 10), a 40 - point scale with higher scores denoting greater psychologi
Psychological distress was assessed using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K - 10), a 40 - point scale with higher scores denoting greater psychological d
distress was assessed using the Kessler
Psychological Distress Scale (K - 10), a 40 - point scale with higher scores denoting greater psychologi
Psychological Distress Scale (K - 10), a 40 - point scale with higher scores denoting greater psychological d
Distress Scale (K - 10), a 40 - point scale with higher
scores denoting greater
psychologicalpsychological distressdistress.
Protocols are in place to identify and follow - up participants whose
scores on standardised mental health assessments indicate elevated
psychological distress.
Personality,
psychological distress and family support were assessed using the Maudsley Personality Inventory, Brief Symptom Rating Scale, and the Family APGAR
score, respectively.
We did not use
psychological distress as a fourth indicator of personal well - being, but included it as a separate outcome measure, for which we used the total
score of the HADS.
As far as it concerns
psychological wellbeing, although the majority of the subjects reported
scores that fell into the SCL -90-R normative range, some mothers reported the presence of significant
psychological distress as well.
Conversely, active coping seems to function as a buffer for
psychological distress with elevated
scores on the active coping strategies indicating fewer symptoms of
psychological distress.
In their mediating role for the personality characteristics it is interesting to note that individuals with higher
scores on dependency and self - criticism also engaged more in passive coping and in turn had higher
scores on
psychological distress.
Despite these limitations, the results of the present study confirmed that the HADS has good psychometric properties in an Italian community sample as well as in the Italian clinical study [28], and that the HADS
scores, especially the general
psychological distress one, can be reliably used for assessing age and gender differences.
The same was found for active coping: individuals who
scored high on dependency
scored lower on active coping and in turn had higher
scores for
psychological distress.
Accordingly, the present study used latent difference
score modeling with data from a large population - based sample of colorectal cancer patients to: 1) describe the trajectory of post-traumatic growth for colorectal cancer patients from soon after diagnosis to five years subsequently 2) assess the heterogeneity of a post-traumatic growth response to cancer over time and 3) describe the simultaneous and longitudinal relationships between post-traumatic growth and
psychological distress after colorectal cancer.
Three independent clusters of women, based on patterns of satisfaction, investment, and commitment
scores, were compared regarding physical abuse, reactions to
psychological abuse, ratings of perceived harm, endorsement of relationship schemas,
psychological distress variables, and personality variables.
bVariable range: Age, 12 — 20 y; Interpersonal violence sum -
score 0 — 5; Loneliness, 1 — 5;
Psychological distress, 1 — 4; Family cohesion, 1 — 5.
The results of the present study confirmed that the HADS has good psychometric properties in an Italian community sample, and that the HADS
scores, especially the general
psychological distress one, can be reliably used for assessing age and gender differences.
Furthermore, the model operates across the entire range of
psychological distress and not only among those partners displaying high levels of depressive affect (
scores 16 and above on the CES - D), with sex differences operating to a greater extent among those partners in the high depressive affect subgroup.
152 people (aged between 16 and 70 years; 43 % male) physically injured, mainly by motor vehicle accident or assault, and with acute
psychological distress (DSM - IV, PTSD symptom criteria from PTSD Diagnostic Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
score > 15 or Impact of Event Scale (IES)
score > 35).
Some associations were detected for SCL -90-R, namely a negative relationship between higher
psychological distress at three scales of the SCL -90-R (assessed at time 1) and lower variance
scores between T1 and T4.