Results: With the exception of conduct problems, the PDD group generally received higher
symptom severity ratings than the regular early childhood group, but the pattern of differences compared with the other two groups often varied by type of symptom and informant.
«There are several explanations for lower
symptom severity ratings in women using HC,» the study stated.
Not exact matches
«At pre-ECT baseline,» says Elberling, «his self -
rated chemical sensitivity
symptom severity was 95 out of 100.
The ONTRAC trial assessed ADHD
symptom severity using a parent
rating scale, and measured cognitive performance on tests of attention, response inhibition and working memory.
Comparisons of
symptoms from the beginning to the end of the 8 - week study showed considerable improvement in RLS - related
symptom severity with all but 1 participant
rating her
symptoms in the minimal to mild range.
At the beginning of the study, the participants
rated the
severity of their fibromyalgia
symptoms — including pain, fatigue, stiffness, poor sleep, and anxiety — on a scale from 0 to 100 using a standard questionnaire.
Heartworm
symptoms include coughing, exercise intolerance, increased breathing
rate or effort, abdominal distension with fluid, discolored urine as well as many other
symptoms, depending on the
severity of the disease process.
Unlike the Y - BOCS, it was not designed to measure the
severity of OCD, but rather, it comprises an inventory of 55 OCD
symptoms that are each
rated on a 5 - Likert scale.
The Longitudinal Interval Follow - up Evaluation
rates severity of psychopathologic
symptoms over time using 6 - point Psychiatric Status
Rating (PSR) scales for each disorder based on DSM - III - R criteria; these are scored on a week - by - week basis during the interview period (6 or 12 months).
At both baseline and follow - up there was a high
rate of depressive
symptoms with one third of the group scoring 14 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory (a questionnaire designed to measure
severity of depressive
symptoms).
Analysis of covariance showed that compared with the TAU group, the IPT - A group showed significantly fewer clinician - reported depression
symptoms on the Hamilton Depression
Rating Scale (P =.04), significantly better functioning on the Children's Global Assessment Scale (P =.04), significantly better overall social functioning on the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (P =.01), significantly greater clinical improvement (P =.03), and significantly greater decrease in clinical
severity (P =.03) on the Clinical Global Impressions scale.
Included studies used several tools for measuring the
severity of depressive
symptoms, namely the Hamilton Depression
Rating Scale (HAM - D), 21 22 30 34 35 Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ - 9), 24 36 Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), 23 26 28 Hopkins
Symptom Checklist - 20 (HSCL - 20), 37 38 Montgomery - Asberg Depression
Rating Scale (MADRS), 18 25 27 Beck Depression Inventory - Fast Screen (BDI - FS) 39 and Center of Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D).40 These tools have different score ranges (HAM - D = 0 — 53, PHQ - 9 = 0 — 27, GDS = 0 — 15, HSCL - 20 = 0 — 4, MADRS = 0 — 60, BDI - FS = 0 — 21 and CES - D = 0 — 60), with higher scores in all tools representing increasing
severity of depressive
symptoms.
The Hamilton
Rating Scale for Depression — 17 - Item42 was used to evaluate the
severity of depressive
symptoms.
This timeline allowed the interviewer to identify «worst» episodes to
rate with structured and semistructured
symptom severity measures.
Each weekly
symptom severity level was assigned as presented in Table2, based on the 6 - point PSR scale for major depression and mania plus the 3 - point PSR scale for
rating minor depression / dysthymia, hypomania, DSM - IV atypical depression, DSM - III adjustment disorder with depressed mood, and RDC cyclothymic personality.
Heart
rate dynamics and their relationship to psychotic
symptom severity in clozapine - treated schizophrenic subjects.
Some psychophysiological assessments (galvanic skin response, heart
rate, breathing, pupil dilation, stress cortisol) can identify anxiety - related patterns of autonomic arousal, but a clinical diagnosis still requires diagnostic interview to assess
symptom onset, duration,
severity and associated impairment.
Main Outcome Measures Clinician -
rated PTSD
symptom severity was the primary outcome and was assessed with the Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale.
In support of these results, multilevel modeling of the outcomes revealed the predicted time × condition interaction for the primary outcome of clinician -
rated PTSD
symptom severity (t37.5 = − 3.09; P =.004) and for patient - reported relationship satisfaction (t68.5 = 2.00; P =.049).
Outcomes: Behavioural or psychological
symptom frequency (eg, Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist),
severity (eg, Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Diseases
Rating Scale) or both (eg, Neuropsychiatry Inventory).
Measures utilized include the Expectancy
Rating Form (ERF), the Trauma
Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA), the Clinical Global Impression - Improvement Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ), the Therapist / Patient Time Tracking System (TTTS), and the Clinical Global Impression —
Severity (CGI -
Severity).
Measures utilized include the Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA), the Trauma
Symptom Checklist for Young Children, the Clinical Global Impression —
Severity (CGI), the Clinical Global Impression — Improvement (CGI — Improvement), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV - TR Axis I Disorders, Research Version, Patient Edition With Psychotic Screen (SCID - RV), the Expectancy
Rating Form, and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD).31 Fourteen depression and anxiety items are
rated on by three individual options per item relating to
severity of the
symptom.
Results indicate that both treatments were equally effective in reducing PTSD
symptom severity, but the response pattern indicated that EMDR led to a significantly sharper decline in PTSD
symptoms than BEPP, with similar drop - out
rates.
Results indicate that both treatments were equally effective in reducing PTSD
symptom severity, but the response pattern indicated that EMDR led to a significantly sharper decline in PTSD
symptoms than brief eclectic psychotherapy, with similar drop - out
rates.
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.
Participants classified as having dementia satisfied DSM - IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) criteria, had dementia
severity ≥ 1.0 on the Clinical Dementia
Rating Scale and exhibited
symptoms of dementia for at least 6 months.
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) has three subscales, each with seven items
rating the
severity / frequency of
symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression, respectively.
Response (score of 1 or 2 (much or very much improved) on the Clinical Global Impressions - Improvement scale);
symptom severity or investigator defined response on closely related measures;
symptom severity (clinician
rated DSM based anxiety scales such as the Child Yale - Brown Obsessive - Compulsive Scale); adverse events.
Clinician - based autism
severity ratings (based on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) did not significantly predict parenting stress; however, parental report of the
severity of ASD - associated
symptoms (from the Social Responsiveness Scale) showed a significant relation to stress.
Obsessive — compulsive
severity was measured using the Children's Yale - Brown Obsessive — Compulsive Scale, and depressive
symptoms were
rated using the Children's Depression
Rating Scale - Revised.
Problem behaviors as assessed by the Child Behavior Checklist accounted for the largest proportion of the variance in parenting stress; adaptive behaviors and
severity of parent - or clinician -
rated autism - associated
symptoms did not uniquely contribute above and beyond problem behaviors.
Children were assigned a diagnosis if either the parent or child reported that
symptoms were causing significant interference in functioning, and if a Clinical
Severity Rating (CSR) of 4 or more was assigned (in accordance with the clinician's manual of the ADIS - IV; Silverman and Albano 1996).
Paternal ADHD was found to be associated with the
severity of children's ADHD
symptoms and a trend for higher
rates of CD for children in the paternal ADHD group.