Sentences with phrase «validated measures»

In a cross-sectional study conducted between March 2013 and January 2015 in Birmingham, AL, 180 PLWH recruited from an outpatient HIV clinic completed previously validated measures of internalized stigma, attachment styles, and concern about being seen while taking HIV medication.

Cross-sectional research generally fails to disentangle causes from consequences but longitudinal population - based research offers the potential to elucidate these pathways.4 This type of research relies on well - validated measures of family functioning that can be administered on a large scale, in a cost - efficient manner and be suitable for use with families with young children.

In doing so, we used well - validated measures with good psychometric properties.

We have highlighted the most commonly used measures in each table: these were also well - validated measures, normed in reasonably large populations and generally short and easy to use.

Instead, well - validated measures of positive phenomena should become routinely incorporated into a broader array of health psychology studies to provide a rigorous test of their role in human health and adaptation to disease.

A questionnaire was produced comprising these item pools in addition to well validated measures covering: The 30 Big Five facets, stress, general anxiety, social anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive symptoms, schizotypy, psychological (eudemonic) well - being, physical health, sleep quality, life satisfaction, coping styles, gratitude, hope, optimism, social desirability, and several measures of parenting.

People participating in counselling services are given the opportunity to regularly provide feedback about their progress and their counselling experience using validated measures.

If progress is to be made in this field, future studies should reach toward a consensus by using validated measures based on supported conceptualizations of what therapeutic alliance is [34,41].

In addition, OPA has funded a three - year project to develop a patient - reported outcome performance measure, which will focus on filling another critical gap in performance measures (that is, the need for validated measures of client experience with contraceptive services).

Historical Trauma Among Urban American Indians: Impact on Substance Abuse and Family Cohesion Wiechelt, Gryczynski, Johnson, & Caldwell (2012) Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping, 17 (4) View Abstract Examines historical trauma in an urban American Indian sample using validated measures of historical loss and associated symptoms.

As the interest towards the understanding of human well - being continuously grows (Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), the necessity of using psychometrically sound research tools and rigorously validated measures for assessing such constructs has become imperative (Diener & Seligman, 2004).

Practitioners will learn how to use this flexible programme for group and individual work and how to use a suite of validated measures to evaluate impact.

For this reason, loneliness assessment through validated measures has become a priority.

Currently, developmental and behavioral / emotional screenings are viewed as separate constructs, and most well - validated measures screen for them independently.

However, there appears to be a lack of reliable, validated measures to assess self - reported adherence to prescribed but unsupervised home - based rehabilitation exercises.

As with developmental screening, children should be screened at regular intervals for behavioral and emotional problems with standardized, well - validated measures beginning in infancy and continuing through adolescence.

Among the main strengths of the current study are the large sample size and use of well - validated measures of mental health problems developed for use with adolescents.

There are few well - established and empirically - validated measures to assess ASD.

At least 44 % were not using validated measures of efficacy, and at least 33 % failed to do so for adverse effects.

However, they wrote, there are accessible and validated measures of structural racism in the public health and social science literature, such as redlining, sundown towns, and mass incarceration.

Practitioners will learn how to use this flexible programme for group and individual work and how to use a suite of validated measures to evaluate impact.

«With validated measures, more and more of the guesswork is being removed from the process.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Depression in fathers was assessed using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form, a validated measure used to identify the presence of a major depressive episode within the previous year.24 Fathers were asked 2 stem questions: (1) «During the past 12 months, has there ever been a time when you felt sad, blue, or depressed for 2 or more weeks in a row?»

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Here, the challenge of validating measures lies at the post-estimation stage, where researchers have to demonstrate that they are actually capturing a dimension of conflict.

Using a previously validated measure, they also rated the man's orientation toward social dominance — judging the extent to which he would agree with statements like «Some groups of people are simply inferior to others.»

Using quantitative survey techniques, we were able to demonstrate substantial increases in energy and reductions in depressed mood (using an externally validated measure).

Additional research that validates these measures of teacher effectiveness on non-tested outcomes would have important implications not only for teacher recruitment, assessment, and placement, but also for improving overall life trajectories of students.

The idea of the initiative is to define, develop, and validate measures of what have often been called non-cognitive skills, but we think are more accurately described as character traits.

A new initiative aims to define, develop, and validate measures of what have often been called non-cognitive skills, but we think are more accurately described as character traits.

Content across communities: Validating measures of elementary mathematics instruction.

«Comparing and Validating Measures of Character Skills: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample.»

The present study provides evidence of learning by examining participants» MKT through a validated measure and their reports of learning within focus group interviews.

The survey was a validated measure used in a study conducted in 1998 with 346 undergraduate students from the same university.

Validating measures of effective teaching using random assignment

The EQ - 5D instrument, as a standardized, cross-culturally validated measure of self - assessed health has a hugely important role in understanding population health within and across countries.

The goal of the study was partly to validate the measuring methods pioneered during the spill, to find out if the were accurate and thus, if they should be used in the future.

Given that cultural background undoubtedly impacts feeding practices and that rates of childhood obesity are elevated in groups with lower socio - economic status and some ethnic groups in the US, it is of high importance to validate this measure with additional samples.

Maternal PDS was assessed four weeks after childbirth using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)(Cox & Holden, 2003), which is a well - validated measure of depressive symptoms comprising 10 items.

To measure changes in the child's behaviour, we used the preschool version of a clinically validated measure of childhood emotional and behavioural problems the Parent Account of Child Symptoms (PrePACS).60 Data on positive and negative interactions were gathered using a video of a child's mealtime coded according to the Mellow Parenting Scheme61 and a 5 min speech sample capturing parents» descriptions of their children and their relationship with each child, coded according to the warmth of their initial statement and the percentage of negative comments about the child.62 Speech samples and videos were coded following the training of researchers by the developer according to the developer's manuals.61, 62 Researchers received training in the administration of the PrePACS from the developer.

2) Articles that initially validated or used a previously validated measure of parenting stress.

A widely used and validated measure (partner - to - partner Conflict Tactics Scales37) was used to assess the type and level of domestic violence between the caregiver and a partner.

The Family Interview for Genetic Studies40 is a validated measure of family psychiatric history widely used in genetic research.

The current study aimed to develop a reliable laboratory measure of socially indiscriminate forms of attachment behavior based on direct observation and to validate the measure against assessments of early care and later behavior problems among home - reared infants.

Attachment anxiety and avoidance were accurately measured by the paradigm when compared to scores on the Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR - R; Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000) questionnaire, a validated measure of adult attachment.

The SDQ is a well - validated measure with a large amount of peer - reviewed literature detailing its psychometric properties [28,29].

We chose this validated measure of externalizing behavior, as opposed to other broader measures, as it takes into account those specific externalizing traits commonly comorbid with SUD (see Introduction, A Focus on Youths with Child / Adolescent - Onset Substance Use Problems).

Importantly, our study uses a new, validated measure of adult mental health that expands the prior focus on adult depressive symptoms to include anxiety symptoms as well.

The SDQ is one of the most widely used validated measure of mental health in children and is sensitive to change; in intervention studies, effect sizes have been shown to be moderate to large.27 — 29