Sentences with phrase «reported psychiatric symptoms»

Post-treatment measures found improved parent - reported psychiatric symptoms, levels of behavior problems, and observed family functioning for the MST group, while the IT group reported increased problems in these areas.

Not exact matches

They also reported larger drops in self - reported depressive symptoms, increased social support, lower levels of other psychiatric symptoms and increased functional capacity.

The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.

The effects of DBS on some other non motor symptoms of PD are less clear cut and transient worsening of neuropsychological and psychiatric symptoms have been reported.

«There is no doubt that mefloquine does cause more sleeplessness, abnormal dreams, anxiety and depressed mood than the alternatives» says Dr Tickell - Painter, «but the review clarifies that these are symptoms reported by people taking mefloquine and not formal psychiatric diagnoses.

CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion based on self - reported symptoms and requires careful medical and psychiatric evaluations to rule out conditions with similar clinical presentation.

Possible limitations of our study include the measurement of our dietary exposures and covariates from FFQs, instead of dietary biomarkers or food records, and the assessment of our outcome of depression from self - reported symptoms as opposed to psychiatric interviews.

The SS cohort reported significantly better outcomes over one year in employment, social support, general symptoms of psychiatric distress, and symptoms of PTSD, particularly avoidance and arousal clusters.

Mental health was assessed using the teacher, parent and self - report versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), including an impact section, used to measure symptom dimensions and probability of psychiatric disorders.

Results from a one - way MANOVA revealed that patients with a premorbid and current psychiat - ric disorder reported significantly higher pain severity, more somatic symptoms, poorer sleep quality, and poorer quality of life than those with no psychiatric history.

Difficulties in recruiting and retaining BSA participants by 9 months reduced the sample size.59 Self - reported questionnaires indicate the presence of depressive symptoms, but given the absence of psychiatric interviews, this is not diagnostic of a depressive disorder.

Several types of specific psychosocial outcomes were reported in these studies: psychiatric or behavioural symptoms, self esteem, self worth and social competence, locus of control, and family functioning.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

One limitation of this study is that the researchers did not use formal diagnostic criteria for psychiatric or substance use problems, rather they relied upon self - reported symptoms and treatment history.

Moreover, men with depressive symptoms have reduced parasympathetic activity compared with control subjects, whereas no differences between depressed women and controls have been reported.44) Because the demographic characteristics of patients with various psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and MDD) differ, the recruitment of separate groups of healthy controls that are well matched to individuals with each psychiatric disorder is necessary to clarify the HRV data.

Anxiety, disruptive, eating, mood, and substance use disorders were assessed during adolescence and early adulthood using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children.36 The parent and offspring versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children were administered during the adolescent interviews because the use of multiple informants increases the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents.37, 38 Symptoms were considered present if reported by either informant.

The clinical diagnosis of hypochondriasis was made with the Structured Diagnostic Interview for Hypochondriasis based on operationalized DSM - III - R criteria.27 Interrater agreement with this instrument is 96 %, and the univariate correlation between the interview responses and self - report questionnaire scores is 0.75.27 The DSM diagnosis of hypochondriasis specifically excludes hypochondriacal symptoms that are better explained by another, comorbid psychiatric disorder or by major medical illness.

Another noteworthy issue is that psychological or psychiatric conditions are reported by 47 % of PWH, with 29 % relating these symptoms to haemophilia.4 This is even more relevant considering that psychological factors can influence both pain experience and QoL in PWH.12 Interestingly, Cassis et al 6 state that variations in QoL are better explained by psychosocial, rather than clinical predictors.

Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide, among other psychiatric symptoms.15, 16 For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.

The elevated prevalence of alcohol use disorders among people with psychotic disorders is well documented.1 Among this population alcohol misuse has been linked to a range of adverse consequences including unemployment, lower education level and lower socioeconomic status.2 Studies examining the impact of alcohol misuse on various psychiatric symptoms among people with psychotic disorders report inconsistent findings.3, 4

There were no significant differences between patients in both placebo and fluoxetine groups on measures of general psychiatric symptoms, global functioning or self - reported depressive symptom measurements (Moldenhauer & Melnyk, 1999).

It is a widely used checklist that obtains patients» reports of the frequency and severity of 53 common psychiatric symptoms over the prior week.

The absence of significant associations between fathers» reports of their own involvement in care with mothers» reports of their own psychiatric symptoms and parenting stress may be due to the fact that we have attempted to demonstrate relations between conceptually distinct constructs, each of which was reported by a different respondent.

At the first stage of assessment self - report questionnaires were administered to examine the presence of maternal psychiatric symptoms (SCL -90-R), perceived social support (MSPSS), and marital adjustment (Dyadic Adjustment Scale); dyadic interactions were observed and rated with the Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, 2008) at each stage of data collection.

The psychosocial variables were: exposure to childhood adversities; proximal negative life events; psychiatric history; parental psychiatric history; adolescent self - reports of the quality of the family environment at age 14.49; and depression symptoms at age 14.49.

The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels of depressive symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.

The BSI is a widely used self - report questionnaire of psychiatric symptoms with well - documented reliability and validity (Derogatis & Spencer, 1982).

Among fathers of children with SB, higher levels of psychiatric symptoms predicted higher levels of questionnaire - reported behavioral control at T1 (coefficient = 0.20, t = 2.02, p <.05), a finding contrary to prediction.

Kavanagh39 reported the median proportion of high EE families in their meta - analysis as 54 % with a range from 23 % to 77 %, whereas figures are typically lower than 40 % in staff - patient studies.12, 23,24,27,28,40 — 42 It may be the case that psychiatric staff have both more experience and training in managing patients» problems than relatives which may be protective factors against the development of high EE.43 In support of this hypothesis, an early study which involved interviewing nurses about how they cope with patients» symptoms of schizophrenia found that more experienced senior staff used a greater number and range of coping strategies than less experienced staff.43 High EE ratings in staff - patient studies are also almost exclusively based on the presence of critical comments with infrequent hostility and very little evidence of EOI.

This is a self - report questionnaire applied as a psychiatric case - finding instrument, as a measure of symptom severity, and as a descriptive measure of psychopathology in different patient populations.

Across a 3 - month primary period, mothers report frequency, duration and onset of child psychiatric symptoms to the interviewer.