Introduction to Psychometric Measures

METHODS 224 consecutive patients (participation rate = 72%) newly diagnosed with a primary HNC were assessed with a structured clinical interview for a mental disorder, validated psychometric measures, and medical chart reviews.

Associations with psychometric measures remained consistent after ComBat harmonization, though only the association with CGAS reached statistical significance in the reduced sample.

Hence, it is unclear whether estimations of choice consistency fulfill a basic requirement of valid psychometric measures.

Besides psychometric measures, the data on agents’ objective sales performance was provided by their employer.

METHODS Mothers with babies between zero and twelve months (N=527) were recruited to a cross-sectional online survey containing a battery of psychometric measures.

Further, psychometric measures for the construct are limited.

Assessment of individuals' job performance, personalized health and psychometric measures are domains where data-driven ubiquitous computing will have a profound impact in the near future.

Objectives We aimed to determine whether gustatory and psychometric measures of reward-related feeding are predictors of bariatric-induced weight loss.

This scoping review aims to identify the components of visuospatial ability that have been reported in surgical and nonsurgical trainees and determine if there is consensus regarding the language and psychometric measures used, clarifying the elements that may be required to develop interventions that enhance visuospatial ability.

We assessed the sociodemographic profile and four psychometric measures of HCPs working in Bangladesh during the covid-19 pandemic.

Research participants (N = 568) completed psychometric measures to report: individual wellbeing, emotional intimacy as a couple, satisfaction with sexual intimacy as a couple, and overall marital satisfaction.

Clinicodemographic variables and psychometric measures of depression, anxiety, and cognitive function were recorded.

Self-report data were collected including psychometric measures assessing multidimensional perfectionism, mental wellbeing and athletic coping skills.

This Special Issue of Mental Health, Religion & Culture marks Part X of a series entitled Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture: The development and examination of psychometric measures.

Materials: Thirty-two patients with AN, all part of the PROspective Longitudinal all-comer inclusion study on Eating Disorders (PROLED) were followed over eight weeks with baseline psychometric measures and weekly VAS anxiety self-scoring.

The heterogeneity of driving anxiety means that treatment often needs to address multiple areas of anxiety, cognition, and behaviour, and psychometric measures are an important part of individualised treatment and outcome measurement.

The survey included socio-demographics and COVID-19-related questions, along with lifestyle, suicidal, and psychometric measures.

The psychometric measures of minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and Patient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS) were developed to better interpret study findings.

Participants were assessed on standardized self-reported psychometric measures including loneliness, resilience, quality of life, social support, life satisfaction and national identity at three time points.

This Special Issue of Mental Health, Religion & Culture marks Part IX of a series entitled Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture: The development and examination of psychometric measures.

Participants completed psychometric measures and measures of urticaria symptomatology as assessed by the urticaria control test, prior to and after the intervention.

Secondary outcomes included the user retention rate at 12 months follow-up, compliance, changes in scores of psychometric measures.

We use a mixture of segmented and hierarchical regression models, structural equation modeling and machine learning to infer relationships between sleep duration/quality, attitudes about sleep and biodemographic/psychometric measures of life history strategy (LHS).

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between dissociative and psychometric measures in course of intravenous ketamine treatment in TRD inpatients with major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.

After obtaining electronic consent, we conducted a survey assessing people’s sociodemographic profiles and psychometric measures.

We assessed people's sociodemographic profiles and different psychometric measures in this study.

Among other psychometric measures and structured clinical interviews, ER was measured via the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS).

474 adults 18-81 years old from Siberia (Russia) participated in May 2020 in a survey about the impact of the pandemic and self-isolation and also filled out psychometric measures of well-being and psychological resources (PANAS, PWI, Value of Life Scale, MHC, MSTAT-I, LOT, GSE, Hardiness Survey, SOC, Personal Life Position inventory).

However, few psychometric measures capture the intricacies of intersectional stigma.

Therefore, further long-term randomized controlled trials with standardized psychometric measures are required.

Data on psychometric measures of mental well-being and family functioning were obtained at (i) preprogram, (ii) postprogram, and (iii) at the end of probation.

METHOD We administered a battery of psychometric measures to 501 adults in the United States, and examined the direct and indirect effects between alexithymia (Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire), emotion regulation ability (Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory), and affective disorder symptoms (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21).

HRQoL was assessed with standard self-administered psychometric measures with established reliability and validity: FertiQol and HADS.

Method This is a cross-sectional survey, utilising validated psychometric measures.

In addition, participants completed psychometric measures, including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale and the Type D Scale-14.

We conclude that psychometric measures of empathy do not discriminate incarcerated violent offenders, and that the incorporation of psychophysiological measures, such as HRV, could be an avenue for forensic research on empathy to establish translatable evidence-based information.

RESULTS We first show overlap of negative and disorganised (but not positive) features of schizotypy with autistic traits in a sample of n = 376 German non-clinical subjects using multiple psychometric measures of schizotypy (MSS multidimensional schizotypy scale, OLIFE Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences, and SPQ-B schizotypal personality questionnaire - brief) and the AQ autism spectrum quotient, with control measures for affective spectrum pathology (BDI).

We investigated relationships between psychometric measures of memory, executive functions (EFs), and task-based measures of Judgments of Learning (JOLs) in individuals with and without Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), to study functional reorganization after TBI.

METHOD A total of 311 consecutive patients seeking aesthetic surgery who were referred for psychological assessment under the AEARP completed a series of psychometric measures as part of routine clinical practice.

Diverse psychometric measures were used for BI, anxiety, and mutism symptoms.

Patients and controls underwent a series of psychometric measures, namely the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, the Italian Perceived Disability Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory.

METHOD We applied latent profile analysis to psychometric measures of anxiety, depersonalization-derealization, and dissociation in 303 DDD patients.

Method A 4-step sequential design of identifying, selecting, adapting and testing psychometric measures as follows: 1) identification of stigma outcome measures through reviewing anti-stigma intervention literature, 2) selection of candidate measures through quality assessment (Terwee criteria) and expert consultation, 3) adaptation for UK dementia population (Stewart and colleagues Modification Framework) 4) testing of adapted measures in people living with dementia ( N =40) to establish acceptability and preliminary reproducibility (test retest), criterion (concurrent with SIS) and construct (negative convergence with Rosenberg self-esteem scale) validity.

The framework was then used to guide the culturally ethical use of Western psychometric measures at a naturalistic kava-use setting.

Furthermore, the two psychometric measures to evaluate expectancy can add important information at low cost.

One useful strategy has been to connect centrality measures to more traditional psychometric measures such as factor loadings.

Eight-two healthy young adults completed psychometric measures of giving and receiving emotional and instrumental social support and participated in a standardised laboratory stress task.

However, there are no existing psychometric measures to assess how parents assist children in employing emotion regulation strategies for negative emotions.

Change in psychometric measures (baseline vs.

Correlates between FC changes and psychometric measures—including the perceived criticism measure (PCM) and self-perception profile for adolescents (SPPA)—were assessed.

The use of IPEDs was assessed in conjunction with psychometric measures such as the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) and the Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI).

Participants completed psychometric measures and measures of urticaria symptomatology as assessed by the urticaria control test, prior to and after the intervention.