Purpose Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used increasingly for individuals with psychological distress following acquired brain injury (ABI) in different countries. However, questionnaires measuring ACT-processes are often not validated this patient group need cross-cultural validation. This study investigated the psychometric properties of Action Questionnaire Acquired Brain Injury (...

Tests evaluating the attentional-executive system are widely used in clinical practice. However, proximity of an objective cognitive test with real-world situations (ecological validity) is not frequently investigated. The present study evaluate the association between measures of the Five Digit Test (FDT) and the Oral Trails Test (OTT) with self-reported cognitive failures in everyday life as ...

This extension trial is an open-label observational trial of 20 subjects with fibromyalgia who undertook level 2 Chaoyi Fanhuan Qigong (CFQ) training following an earlier controlled trial of level 1 CFQ. Subjects practiced 60 min/day for 8 weeks and continued some daily practice for 6 months. Quantitative measures, assessed at baseline, 8 weeks, 4 and 6 months, were of pain, impact, sleep, phys...

Background: Cognitive fusion is a substantial variable of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Recently, various instruments have been developed to assess cognitive fusion, including version relevant medical illness referred as the Fusion Questionnaire-Chronic Illness (CFQ-CI). Objectives: This study aimed validity reliability Persian CFQ-CI in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Methods: In ...

Antecedentes: La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso se caracteriza por poner énfasis en el distanciamiento desapasionado los propios pensamientos. fusión cognitiva es un estado donde las personas reaccionan a sus pensamientos forma literal permitiendo que sean estos tomen control determinen comportamiento. El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar propiedades psicométricas cuestionario (CFQ) població...

Clinical reports after traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest frequent difficulties with sustained attention, but their objective measurement has proved difficult. In 1997, Robertson and colleagues reported on a new sustained attention assessment tool, the sustained attention to response task (SART). Individuals with TBI were reported to produce more errors of commission on the SART than control ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine whether proneness to subjective cognitive failure (cognitive based mistakes) increases the risk for the development of symptoms of psychosis and to what degree any association was familial. METHODS At baseline, the Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) and the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE) questionnaire were administered in a...

BACKGROUND Quality of life is recognized as an important additional outcome measure in clinical trials and health economic evaluations. The EQ-5D is an important generic health outcome instrument often used for economic evaluations as a complement with disease-specific outcome measures. In this study quality of life data was assessed using the EQ-5D-Y (new EQ-5D version for children and adolesc...

148 Word count: 2366 (all main text including the title and abstract) Address correspondence to: Nilli Lavie, Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Email: [email protected] Telephone: (44) 20 76795404 Fax: (44) 20 74364276 Perceptual load and differences in distractibility 3 Perceptual load has been found to be a powerful determinant of distracti...