OBJECTIVE To determine if watching a children's program on a portable video player reduces anxiety levels in preschool children before cryotherapy for cutaneous viral warts. DESIGN Nonblinded before-after trial. SETTING General dermatology clinic. PARTICIPANTS Consecutive patients aged 2 to 6 years who underwent cryotherapy for cutaneous viral warts. INTERVENTION Patients were shown a c...

Maltreatment by coaches is a significant issue for all athletes, and particularly female athletes. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether psychological physical maltreatment could affect social physique anxiety, body dissatisfaction drive thinness in former Greek Two hundred fifty athletes participated study, rrhythmic gymnastics (RG) other sports (OS). They completed self-repo...

OBJECTIVE To develop a calibrated item bank and computer adaptive test to assess anxiety symptoms in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric, and create a statistical linkage with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7, a widely used anxiety measure. DESIGN Grounded-theory based qualitative i...

The present paper aims at presenting the procedure of construction and standardization of operational measure of math anxiety scale (MAS). The final form of the test has 14 statements which is design to measure the math anxiety of secondary school and senior secondary school students. MAS as a bidimensional and shorter instrument in which 7 items are worded positively and 7 items worded negativ...

measure anxiety and depression (Clark & Watson, 1991). Because of that, several authors have used factor analysis to develop anxiety and depression scales with a greater divergent validity. The most recent is that of Lovibond and Lovibond (1995a, 1995b). Their work led to the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS), each of which contains 14 items. The Depression scale assesses dysphoria, ...

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological violence, maltreatment and depression, anxiety among Turkish immigrant women living in Germany during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The Profile of Psychological Abuse Women, Maltreatment Women Inventory, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) were delivered participants...

objectives: the attentional control scale is a self- report questionnaire that assesses individual differences in attentional control. despite its extensive use, the psychometric properties of the persian version of the acs are not well understood. thus, the present study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of the attentional control scale and its relationship with symptoms of an...