BACKGROUND Physical injury and psychological disorder following a motor vehicle crash (MVC) is a public health concern. The objective of this research was to determine rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with MVC-related injury engaged in compensation, and to determine the capacity (e.g. sensitivity and specificity) of two psychometric sc...

Description The DASS is a 42-item self-administered questionnaire designed to measure the magnitude of three negative emotional states: depression, anxiety, and stress. The DASS-Depression focuses on reports of low mood, motivation, and self-esteem, DASS-anxiety on physiological arousal, perceived panic, and fear, and DASS-stress on tension and irritability. Instructions to client and scoring: ...

The Movement Control Order (MCO) was imposed in Malaysia March 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This six-month control led a substantial psychological impact among Malaysians. Using quantitative survey based on DASS-21 instrument, 400 Malaysians answered questionnaire examine whether demographic factors, risk perception, individual behaviour, mental health and media usage affected of during C...

The evidence regarding older parental age and incidence of mood disorder symptoms in offspring is limited, and that which exists is mixed. We sought to clarify these relationships by using data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study. The Raine Study provided comprehensive data from 2,900 pregnancies, resulting in 2,868 live born children. A total of 1,220 participants comple...

Abstract The term distress has been used to refer a continuous variable operationalized through symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. In this study, psychological is measured using the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21). Confirmatory Factor Analysis compared fit different measurement models for DASS-21, with parameters items verified Andrich rating scale model. A non-clinical sa...

OBJECTIVES To test the construct validity of the short-form version of the Depression anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21), and in particular, to assess whether stress as indexed by this measure is synonymous with negative affectivity (NA) or whether it represents a related, but distinct, construct. To provide normative data for the general adult population. DESIGN Cross-sectional, correlationa...

Objective. Determine the psychometric characteristics of DASS-21 and identify its advantages as an aid in diagnosis screening mental health disorders (depression, anxiety stress). Materials methods. Descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample was non-probabilistic 964 university students from different regions Colombia who met selection criteria answered questionnaire. Using Cronbach's Alfa, ...