The Fatigue Symptom Inventory has been used extensively to assess and measure fatigue in a number of clinical populations. The purpose of the present study was to further establish its utility by examining its operating characteristics and determining the optimal cutoff score for identifying clinically meaningful fatigue. The MOS 36-Item Short Form Vitality scale, a measure widely used to ident...

OBJECTIVE To compare the annual prevalence of the autism symptom phenotype and of registered diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder during a 10 year period in children. DESIGN Population based study. SETTING Child and Adolescent Twin Study and national patient register, Sweden. PARTICIPANTS 19, 993 twins (190 with autism spectrum disorder) and all children (n=1,078,975; 4620 with autism s...

Objective: This research aims to study the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction training on symptoms attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and academic procrastination in male teenagers with ADHD. Methods: was a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, follow-up control group. The statistical population included all ADHD Tabriz City, Iran. A total 30 were selected via purposive sam...

We explored the effects of feedback on symptom reporting. Two experimental groups (n=15 each) were given a scenario with the option to exaggerate symptoms. Compared with a control condition (n=15), both groups scored significantly higher on the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology. Next, one group was confronted in a sympathetic way about their symptom validity test failure, wherea...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread application of Symptom Checklist 90-R (SCL-90-R), its psychometric weaknesses have repeatedly been noted. This study aimed to comparatively assess the psychometric properties of the SCL-90-R scales and the scales of its short versions Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Symptom Checklist-27 (SCL-27), Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18), Symptom Checklist-14 (SCL-14)...

Background: The worldwide population of child refugees is estimated to be over 10 million. Refugee children and adolescents are among the most vulnerable groups in world, pandemic created new challenges for them. Objective: This study aimed examine PTSD depression levels Syrian refugee adolescents, difficulties they experienced access food education, changes their family income, evaluate effect...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between suicide probability and psychological symptoms and coping strategies in hospitalized patients with physical illness. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2014 in Bandirma State Hospital, Balikesir, Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 470 inpatients who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate...