OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of infant orthopedics (IO) administered in the first year of life on the speech characteristics of 2.5-year-old children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) using a perceptual evaluation instrument with equal-appearing interval (EAI) scales. DESIGN In a prospective randomized clinical trial (Dutchcleft), two groups of children with complet...

OBJECTIVE To gain a deeper understanding of the content of 4 fear of falling (FOF) rating scales by linking them to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). DESIGN Linking study according to the ICF linking rules. SETTING Not applicable. PATIENTS Not applicable. METHODS The rating scales were the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), the Swedis...

This paper provides an overview of a technique for measuring neuropsychiatric states such as anxiety, hostility, and depression and of a software implementation of the technique. The implementation uses both clause structure and a dictionary of semantically-tagged words and phrases to assign scores to individual clauses and to aggregate those scores over larger samples. The basic technique and ...

AIM To compare psychological, medical, and trauma-related variables in veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (CR-PTSD) comorbid with depression and veterans with CR-PTSD only. METHOD Out of 402 Croatian veterans recruited during expert evaluation for war-related compensation claims, 346 met the criteria for CR-PTSD: 97 for CR-PTSD only and 249 for PTSD comorbid with othe...

Pharmacological management of persistent aggression in patients with schizophrenia is a difficult clinical dilemma. Clozapine has been shown to be an effective agent in this regard. This study sought to compare the symptomatic response on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) between hostile schizophrenic patients and patients without aggression. While dramatic improvements were evident in ...

This report describes two rating scales, an Anxiety Scale and an Uncoopera rive Behavior Scale, developed to assess children’s responses to dental stress. The rating procedure is reliable, valid, and easily integrated into clinical or research activities. In the present study, the Method of Paired Comparisons was used to further validate the scales, and to establish interval scaling properties....

Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficits in recognition and identification of facial emotional expressions, but it is unclear whether these deficits result from abnormal affective processing or an impaired ability to process complex visual stimuli such as faces. Participants comprised 16 outpatients with schizophrenia and 22 matched healthy control subjects who performed two computerized visual ...

background: schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder and its  positive and negative symptoms have negative effects on social functions. a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments is considered more effective for this condition. the present study aimed to determine the effect of a group horticulture program on psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic schi...

This paper discusses the association between rating solicitation status and quality. Our model shows that if firms with a declining trend of performance are less likely to solicit ratings from credit agencies, these more conservatively rated, as their self-selection behaviour is seen signal high risk. empirical results support predictions proposed in this study show that: first, when controllin...

OBJECTIVE A recent study showed that rivastigmine and memantin improved behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in Alzheimer's dementia. Furthermore, according to recent guidelines presented by the Movement Disorder Society, rivastigmine is efficacious for the treatment of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD). We investigated the efficacy of rivastigmine for BPSD in patients with...