Introduction to Psychometric Scales

Evaluation of the effectiveness of ziprasidone therapy was carried out using psychometric scales (PANSS, General clinical impression scale to assess the effectiveness of therapy – CGI-S, CGI-I), adverse events were registered with the UKU scale.

The study used three standardized psychometric scales: The Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI).

Superordinate identities, such as identification with all humanity (IWAH), may be considered the result of situational activation or as individual differences that can be measured using psychometric scales.

A number of well-established psychometric scales were also administered to gather standardised measures of health and wellbeing.

Patients underwent clinical psychiatric evaluation using a series of psychometric scales, along with computerized tomography (CT) and biochemical assay of NAA.

In addition, data from validated psychometric scales were collected.

The aim of this article is to identify factors influencing well-being (whether positively or negatively) reported by children and adolescents from their own perspective, in the context of focus groups and individual interviews, and variations in their answers at two different points in time (one year apart), according to: 1) their previous scores (higher or lower) measured using psychometric scales of subjective well-being (SWB) and related constructs (temperamental traits, specifically via variables related to perceptual and pleasure sensitivity and life optimism), and 2) their age (measured through school year and classified into five cohorts).

MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-two patients (22 men and 20 women, aged from 65 to 75 years) with diabetes mellitus type 2 and diabetic polyneuropathy were studied using the following psychometric scales: the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI), Neurological symptoms scale (NSS), Neuropathy Disability Score (NDS), the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Kaplan-Feinstein index (KFI), the Covi Anxiety Scale (COVI), the Recovery Locus of Control Scale (RLOC).

Psychometric scales (HAM-D, MFI-20, SANS, PANSS) and questionnaires (Questionnaire of personality traits of an adult, SPQ-A, SCL-90, Holmes–Ray Stress Inventory) were used.

While correlations between psychometric scales and objective behavior are generally poor, single estimates and measures that attempt to frame technology use as habitual rather than ‘addictive’ correlate more favorably with subsequent behavior.

The psychometric scales used were: PANSS-EC, CGI, CGI-Change, agitation-calmness evaluation scale, visual analog scale and sedation scale.

Most patients (74%) exceeded the thresholds of psychometric scales.

At present, psychometric scales are the main methods for detecting depression in patients and evaluating the clinical treatment effect of depression.

The study used an original short questionnaire and three standardized psychometric scales: The acceptance of illness scale (AIS), the Beliefs about Pain Control Questionnaire (BPCQ), and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ).

Many brief psychometric scales have been developed to assess those at risk of problematic use or addiction including the six-item Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale [SABAS], the six-item Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale [BSMAS], and the nine-item Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form [IGDS-SF9]).

Participants completed other psychometric scales measuring psychosis-like experience to additionally test convergent and divergent validity.

Psychometric scales captured symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (33.

MRI, clinical/neurological examination and psychometric scales were used.

Methods An online cross-sectional survey using validated psychometric scales [Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale] conducted with farmers in Canada between September 2015 and February 2016.

A statistically significant relationship was found between life satisfaction and the age of the respondents and selected psychometric scales.

Efficacy and safety were assessed using validated psychometric scales and an assessment of the severity of adverse drug reactions.

Psychometric scales did not report significance in changes of mood or affect.

Moreover, the K-SAS score for kleptomania was not correlated with psychometric scales related to obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder.

Five psychometric scales were used to measure perception on prevalence and contributors of nonadherence, effective methods of assessment, barriers to assessment and confidence to assess adherence.

The assessment of anxiety intensity may be performed using psychometric scales.

Psychometric scales (the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories) were used to measure emotional and behavioral disorders.

8 years, were studied using clinical examination and psychometric scales as well as computed tomography (CT).

In order to assess the effectiveness and safety of alcohol withdrawal syndrome, which was performed with the benzodiazepine tranquilizer of phenazepam (bromodihydrochlorophenylbenzodiazepine), as well as standard detoxification and vitamin therapy, international psychometric scales and scales of assessment in expressions of adverse reactions.

The final validated version of the MFQ we present here thus contains 67 items comprising 13 psychometric scales targeting the ideal L2 self, the ought L2 self, as well as a diverse range of goal-related and affective motivational variables.

With a mixed design in which we combine the analysis of personal networks, psychometric scales, and qualitative interviews, we describe the use that community mediators make of their personal skills, their personal network, and social media in their actions to confront social trauma and promote coexistence in the local community.

AIM To analyze problems of evaluation of pathological conditions using rank scales, in particular, psychometric scales, and to format the results of processing of the initial rank information on the scale of relations based on analytic hierarchy process.

Study data has been collected using informed patients form and 6 validated psychometric scales: Chaban Quality of Life Scale (CQLS), Medication Compliance Scale (MCS), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale (DAS), Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21)) and Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale (HRSS).

Psychometric scales (SOPS, HDRS, and PANSS) and psychopathological methods were employed.

Psychometric scales along with demographic questionnaire were used to assess and quantify stress and psychological morbidity.

For validation of content, the instrument was evaluated by a panel of experts: 01 scientific method; 01 psychometric scales; 01 linguistics and 02 the subject covered.

Within a clinical trial in which patients with schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucinations were submitted to 10 days rTMS treatment, P50 and P300 were investigated as possible neurophysiological measurements to assess treatment effectiveness together with psychometric scales like Psychotic symptom rating scale (PSYRATS), depression, anxiety and stress scale (DASS) and Quality of Life scale (QoL).

We also discuss psychometric scales used in world practice of aesthetic medicine and cosmetology to identify comorbid mental pathology that determines dissatisfaction with the results of medical interventions.

Different standard psychometric scales such as Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Dr.

A total of 478 online gamers completed a self-report online survey, including validated psychometric scales assessing the aforementioned constructs.

Ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) and discomfort were assessed using psychometric scales before exercise and after each set.

A clinical/psychopathological method and psychometric scales were used.

The outcome is reaching calmness within maximum of 2 h, assessed by the psychometric scales of PANSS-EC, CGI or ACES.

A quantitative study was conducted with 213 participants, and psychometric scales were used to identify this relationship.

In addition to the demographic, clinical, and surgical data, we also analyzed psychometric scales: Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Data were from medical charts, a demographics questionnaire, and validated psychometric scales.

Patient's state was assessed with a large battery of psychological tests and psychometric scales.

Correlation analysis was run in subgroups of men and women with depressive disorders to study the link between childhood trauma and the severity of depression and anxiety on psychometric scales (the Beck, Hamilton, and Spielberger scales) and the biological indicators identified above.

However, most outcome studies have assessed depression as a single underlying latent construct, using the sum score on psychometric scales as an indicator for severity.

METHODS A cross-sectional study design was implemented using two psychometric scales: Parenting Stress Index and Parents' Perception of Uncertainty Scale.

This article comprehensively reviews the major components and dimensions of love that researchers operationalized in psychometric scales throughout recent decades.

Data were gathered in a 3-month deployment with 12 older adults, including semistructured interviews with participants and relatives/friends, psychometric scales, field observations, and usability tests.

The results support the hypothesis that the tendency of SWB to decrease with age starts at around 10 years of age in most countries, while also confirming that different psychometric scales display different levels of sensitivity to diverse sociocultural contexts and more than one should be used in any research on children and adolescents' SWB.

Method: We administered the questionnaire used in the International Survey of Children's Well‐Being (ISCWeB) including two psychometric scales (OLS and PWI‐SC).

The total of 111 elements of the survey are grouped by socio-demographic data and by five psychometric scales (Brief COPE Inventory, EPQR-A, GHQ-28, MOS-SSS and SDHS) measuring several psychological factors acting one as the outcome (SDHS) and the four others as predictors.

It also aims to illustrate how psychometric scales based on respondents’ vocabulary have a great potential as usability assessment instruments.

We further propose that use of psychometric scales in clinical practice not only yields the objective measurement of baseline cognitive/functional state for diagnostic purposes but also enables the clinician to monitor changes during follow-up, particularly those related to treatment response.

Objective evaluation of emotional and behavioral impairments was obtained using psychometric scales (Beck Depression and Anxiety Scales).