To get a read on the volunteers» baseline mental status, REVEAL team members used
standard psychological questionnaires to screen them for depression and anxiety.
As part of the Framingham Heart Study, participants updated researchers on their social contacts and health status, including happiness, as measured by
a standard psychological questionnaire.
Not exact matches
Participants were recruited from two hospital sites in Melbourne (Australia), and were administered the
standard QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury)
questionnaire plus two different measures assessing depression (the recent World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the much older Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-RRB-, a measure of demoralization (Demoralization Scale (DS)-RRB- and
psychological distress (K10).
In the MCS, child behaviour was assessed by a pre-existing
standard psychological measure, the Strengths and Difficulties
Questionnaire (SDQ)[23], which was completed by the «main carer» (i.e. the mother, in our study populations) at ages 3, 5 and 7 years.