Sentences with phrase «shorter general functioning»

According to Alderfer et al. (2008), the FAD and its shorter General Functioning Scale have been categorised as «well - established», although the psychometric properties beyond internal consistencies of the scale are not adequately reported in the literature.

Not exact matches

One of the reasons the Fund had to take such huge market risks with the Inverse Floaters is that I am not equipped, by background or training, to forecast the general level of interest rates, and the near - term market performance of Inverse Floaters was strictly a function of short - term interest rates.

«Unlike the Congress of the United States, the General Assembly of Virginia functions under no grant of power»... The General Assembly, in «represent [ing] the sovereign authority of the people» is restricted only by the Constitution of Virginia «in express terms or by strong implication»... [I] t is a restraining instrument, and... the General Assembly... possesses all legislative power not prohibited by the Constitution»... In short, «[u] nless forbidden by some State or Federal constitutional provision,» the General Assembly's «powers are plenary.

Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).

Results Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).

Measures of effect size from pretreatment levels showed that short term psychotherapy improved targeted symptoms (17 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), general symptoms (15 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), and social functioning (11 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero).

Between - group comparisons showed that short term psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual (p < 0.01 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general symptoms and social functioning) but there was no difference between short term and other forms of psychotherapy (15 studies, p = 0.69 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general and social functioning).

Suicidality was assessed with 3 items (hopelessness, thoughts of death, and thoughts of suicide) from the SCL - 20.27 Physical symptom severity was assessed with the PHQ - 15, a 15 - item scale scored from 0 to 30.28 Health - related quality of life was assessed on the Short Form - 12 (SF - 12) subscales measuring physical health and mental health — related functioning.29 Subscales are normed for the general population so that mean and standard deviation are approximately 50 and 10, respectively.30 Pain intensity and interference were assessed with the Adapted Numeric Rating Scale for Pain31; each item is rated on a 0 - to - 10 Likert scale.