Sentences with phrase «psychosocial measures»

However, other HIV - related health factors, traditional background characteristics, and psychosocial measures (e.g., HIV stigma, parenting stress, family environment) failed to indicate who was most vulnerable.

His groundbreaking research on psychotherapy involves the use of innovative platforms for recording psychophysiology combined with voice features; behavioral measures; and psychosocial measures of social - emotional processes, empathy and alliance during actual sessions.

Comparison of these two groups on a variety of psychosocial measures and parent / guardian reports found differences between them that were consistent with their problem group classification.

A further strength in the present study is that well - established self - reported measures and a broad array of relevant psychosocial measures were used.

Secondary outcomes Measured changes in weight and PA and reported diet and psychosocial measures between baseline and 12 - week follow - up.

A further strength of the present study is that well - established self - reported measures and a broad array of relevant psychosocial measures were used.

Psychosocial measures showed improved quality of life.

A sample of children 15 to 18 years of age were assessed using a range of psychosocial measures including parent - child relationships, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse and mental health.

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Specifically, they use the Harvard General Inquirer Psychosocial Dictionary, the Loughran - McDonald financial dictionary and the proprietary Thomson - Reuters neural network to measure whether news expresses positive, neutral or negative sentiment about associated stocks.

To be included in the review, studies had to measure psychosocial, physical and / or cognitive outcomes associated with formal volunteering — such as happiness, physical health, depression, cognitive functioning, feelings of social support and life satisfaction.

The study, which was published earlier this month in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, compared gender inequality across Europe as measured by perceived exposure to «work - related psychosocial hazards.»

One - third of the psychosocial factors explored were found to be significantly related to emotional adjustment outcome measures.

The dataset included measures of students» academic competence, specifically test scores in math and reading, as well as psychosocial outcomes.

Quiz Ref IDLiterature has shown that female physicians may be more likely to adhere to clinical guidelines,1 - 3 provide preventive care more often,4 - 11 use more patient - centered communication,12 - 15 perform as well or better on standardized examinations, 16 and provide more psychosocial counseling to their patients than do their male peers.14 Although studies suggest differences in practice patterns and process measures of quality between male and female physicians, these studies have not examined patient outcomes, what we arguably care about the most.

The prospective relationship between psychosocial factors and risk of developing hypertension may be confounded or mediated by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors.47 In general, younger persons, blacks (except for TUI), women (except for ASC or hostility), and less educated individuals (except for TUI or ASC) reported higher levels of measured psychosocial attributes.

While Asian Americans do score lower than white students on some measures of psychosocial wellbeing, Americans as a whole score so abnormally high that, globally speaking, Asian American scores are «actually quite normal,» says Pittinsky.

Patients» psychosocial, endocrine, and inflammatory responses will be measured immediately before and after the 10 - minute care session and compared between the two groups.

Recent findings suggest that, regardless of parity, the group benefitting most from nurse home visiting interventions are mothers living in impoverished areas who have lower psychosocial resources during pregnancy (despite the indices used to measure this).1 14 Trials that have had a broader client base, in terms of parity and risk, for example, the New Zealand Early Start programme, 8 15 however, have not yet reported subgroup analyses.

Finally, the MECSH programme, unlike other trials, identified mothers with psychosocial distress during pregnancy using a population - based screening tool (EDS) rather than identifying them post hoc using specific research - based measures.1 14 An issue to be faced in widespread implementation is how mothers with lower psychosocial resources can be identified in the population.1 14 The MECSH trial demonstrates that this group can be easily identified and enrolled in effective intervention programmes embedded with comprehensive services at the population level.

Children completed the Youth - Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC - Y), while their caregivers completed the Pediatric Symptom Checklist — 35 (PSC - 35) to measure psychosocial impairment.

A review and recommendations for optimal outcome measures of anxiety, depression and general distress in studies evaluating psychosocial interventions for English - speaking adults with heterogeneous cancer diagnoses

Only a limited number of well - validated screens suitable for use in primary care for broad screening of family psychosocial risk and family support and functioning are available, although a few show promise.54 — 56 There are screening measures for specific psychosocial stressors, such as maternal depression, and these have been shown to be feasible in pediatric settings.57, 58 Family screening for psychosocial risk within pediatric settings, however, raises a number of dilemmas, including concerns about liability and payment and who is responsible for an adult's well - being after a problem is detected.59

We then review the measures (Table II and Appendix A) and provide a general critique of assessment strategies for psychosocial adjustment, as used in the field of pediatric psychology (including a discussion of strengths and limitations).

The number of endorsements for the 28 psychosocial adjustment measures, specifically, ranged from 5 to 79 (median = 23.5 endorsements; see Table III for a list of endorsement frequencies).

Grayson N. Holmbeck, Azure Welborn Thill, Pamela Bachanas, Judy Garber, Karen Bearman Miller, Mona Abad, Elizabeth Franks Bruno, Jocelyn Smith Carter, Corinne David - Ferdon, Barbara Jandasek, Jean E. Mennuti - Washburn, Kerry O'Mahar, Jill Zukerman; Evidence - based Assessment in Pediatric Psychology: Measures of Psychosocial Adjustment and Psychopathology, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 9, 1 October 2008, Pages 958 — 980, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsm059

This review of measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology is one of eight papers in this special series.

The current review showed that pediatric psychologists clearly have a number of excellent measures to choose from when attempting to assess psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology for either research or clinical purposes.

At follow - up, the Global Assessment Scale (GAS) was used (among other measures) to rate levels of psychosocial functioning.

As well as using the Beck Depression Inventory, other measures of psychosocial functioning and longer - term follow up may have revealed important differences.

Construct validity was tested by examining associations between the PHQ - 9 and a self - report measure of functional impairment, as well as parental reports of child psychosocial impairment and internalizing symptoms.

Third, unlike the JCCAP reviews, which focused on single psychopathologies, we reviewed measures across several psychosocial domains.

[T] he various patterns of coresidence did not differ from the children in intact families on the outcome measures, suggesting that during the initial adjustment period after marital dissolution, the absence of a father - figure or the presence of biological - father - substitutes appear to have no influence on most children's intellectual or psychosocial functioning.»

The purpose of this article is to provide an evidence - based review of measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology, with a specific focus on their use in the field of pediatric psychology.

In only one was an attempt made to measure and adjust for the lack of blindness of outcome assessors that often occurs in studies of psychosocial treatments.

Overall, the study has demonstrated the utility of the adapted DRIVE model and shown that a short single item measuring instrument can quickly capture a wide range of job and psychosocial characteristics.

Here, we introduce the 2015 Middle Childhood Survey (MCS), designed as a self - report measure of children's psychosocial experiences in middle childhood (at approximately 11 years of age) administered online during the final year of primary (elementary) school for a population cohort of children being studied longitudinally within the New South Wales Child Development Study5 (NSW - CDS; http://nsw-cds.com.au/).

This study replicated in a new, large national sample findings from a derivation sample collected about 15 years earlier and therefore supports the continued use of the PSC - 17 as a measure of psychosocial functioning in pediatric primary care and research.

Physicians underestimated substantially the prevalence of intrafamilial violence, maternal psychosocial distress, and associated behavior problems in children compared with use of a questionnaire for this purpose.23 The use of a clinic questionnaire identified significantly more mothers with potential risk factors for poor parenting compared with review of medical records.24 Shorter versions of this questionnaire for evaluating parental depressive disorders, 25 substance abuse, 26 and parental history of physical abuse as a child27 compared favorably to the original measures in terms of accuracy.

A biomarker of systemic aging or more colloquially «a measure of the body's wear and tear», he said telomeres shorten more rapidly under conditions of high psychosocial and physiological stress.

Authors from other countries have reported the highest prevalence of bullying is among elementary school — aged children.1, 4 The current study examines the prevalence of bullying involvement among elementary school children and its association with school records of attendance, academic achievement test scores, suspension or expulsion, and self - reported measures of psychosocial adjustment.

Workload, in particular tight deadlines, too much work and too much pressure or responsibility, a lack of managerial support, organisational changes at work, violence and role uncertainty are identified causes of work - related stress.1 These factors are antecedents of sickness presenteeism which is mediated by mental and physical health.2 At the individual level, chronic stress produces long - term deleterious effects in health, namely, cardiovascular diseases, 3 burn - out, anxiety and depression.4 Sickness absence in Europe is associated with psychosocial work factors.5 The link between work performance, stress and health poses an important challenge to workers, employers and organisations in general, as stress should be monitored and mitigation measures implemented accordingly.6

BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Symptom Checklist - 17 (PSC - 17) is a widely used, briefer version of the PSC - 35, a parent - completed measure of children's psychosocial functioning.

An effort is made in this article to carefully describe the demographic and occupational characteristics of people with MS seeking vocational services at intake, as well as their self - perceived psychosocial functioning across a range of pertinent measures.

To assess the subject's psychiatric and psychosocial functioning, the Psychiatric Status Schedule (PSS) was one of the measures used.

Measures included the Psychiatric Status Schedule (PSS), which assesses the adolescent's psychiatric and psychosocial functioning and also includes a Drug Abuse Score, as well as the Behavior Problem Checklist (BPC), which assesses multiple dimensions of problem behavior, including conduct.

3 THE EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN THE EARLY YEARS 3.1 Key findings about health inequalities in the first four years 3.2 Introduction 3.3 Pregnancy, birth and the first three months 3.3.1 Risk factors and health outcomes in the early years 3.3.2 Inequalities in the early stages 3.4 Health measures in the first four years of life 3.5 Overview of health outcomes 3.5.1 Physical health 3.5.2 Problems reported by parents 3.5.3 Psychosocial health 3.5.4 Body mass index 3.6 Inequalities in health outcomes 3.6.1 Area deprivation 3.6.2 Household income 3.6.3 Socio - economic classification (NS - SEC) 3.6.4 Conclusion 3.7 Exposure to risk factors likely to have an adverse impact on health 3.8 Inequalities in exposure to risk factors for poor health outcomes 3.8.1 Area deprivation 3.8.2 Houshold income 3.8.3 Socio - economic classification (NS - SEC) 3.8.4 Conclusion 3.9 Summary measure of negative outcomes

Change in Psychosocial Distress as measured by the African Youth Psychosocial Assessment Instrument

Measures included the University of California — Los Angeles Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index [UCLA - PTSD RI] and the African Youth Psychosocial Assessment Instrument (AYPA).

Short comprehensive instruments that are appropriate to measure psychosocial problems in children of preschool age are limited [17].

The Child Behavior Checklist 1.5 — 5 (CBCL1.5 — 5)[14] and Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)[15,16] are early detection instruments that are well - validated and measure a broad range of psychosocial problems, and in the case of the ITSEA also delays in competencies.