OBJECTIVE To describe the development of the Thought Disorder Questionnaire (TDQ), including data on reliability and validity, and to explain the questionnaire's feasibility and diagnostic accuracy. METHODS The TDQ has 6 scales, each with 10 items (on a scale from 0 [for never] to 4 [for always]). The 6 scales measure content of thought, control of thought, orientation, perception, fantasy, a...

N.B.: When citing this work, cite the original article. Original Publication: Allan Abbott , The coping strategy questionnaire, Journal of Physiotherapy, 2010. 56(1), pp.63-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1836-9553(10)70061-8 Copyright: Elsevier: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License http://www.elsevier.com/ Postprint available at: Linköping University Electronic Pre...

The content and psychometric properties of the Claustrophobia Questionnaire (CLQ) are described. An earlier version of the CLQ was developed to test the hypothesis that claustrophobia is comprised of two distinct but related fears--the fear of suffocation and the fear of restriction [J. Anxiety Disord. 7 (1993) 281.]. The scale was used to assess patients undergoing the magnetic resonance imagi...

We appreciate the interest of Brett et al. 1 in our Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ). 2 The highest priority in designing a questionnaire for epidemiologic practice is the ability of the questionnaire to rank individuals (i.e., to discriminate among individuals with respect to their physical activity) rather than to estimate their absolute energy expenditure. Therefore, in devel...

Parental Care and Control, which are two major parental handling, variables are significantly related to psychological morbidity in children where high care-low control is associated with healthy development and low care-high control is related to psychiatric disorder. Parents by & large do not differ in their patterns of handling with regard to age and sex of the child, rural-urban living and ...

Drug hypersensitivity is a common and complicated problem in clinical practice. The clinical picture of drug hypersensitivity is very heterogeneous, encompassing such distinct diseases as morbilliform or bullous exanthema, urticaria, anaphylaxis, blood cell dyscrasia, fever, interstitial lung disease, hepatitis, nephritis, and various forms of autoimmune diseases. Drug hypersensitivity has take...

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AUTHORS' REPLY DrThurlbeck objects to our conclusion that the severity of the lesions of the bronchioles and parenchyma assessed by grading techniques in resected lung specimens do not correlate with lung function measurements obtained in the same subjects. We agree that this conclusion is at variance with much that is in the literature and, indeed, reported it for that reason. The data we pres...

To the Editors: Of course we agree with Kristal et al. (1) that validity is an issue of degree rather than a dichotomy and that multiple methods will usually be useful when evaluating validity because a perfect standard is rarely available. However, their examples based on face validity, construct validity, and predictive validity do not provide evidence that food frequency questionnaires shoul...