Intervention research in pediatric psychology assumes special importance given continuing pressures to develop and document the efficacy of interventions for pediatric populations. Studies presented in this issue illustrate the need for flexible approaches to intervention research including case studies and randomized trials, comprehensive assessment of health and psychological outcomes, assess...

ACaPELa questionnaire by assessment of four hundred and fifty-five patients Crosbie, R.,* McKendrick, M., Corson, S., Lowit, A. & MacKenzie, K. *ENT Department, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Strathclyde, School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, E...

1Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Health Psychology. Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) 2Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Granada & School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University. Melbourne, Australia 3ICEERS Foundation (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Services) Psychometric Properties of Plutchik’...

We show that a certain class of similarity measures, which is based on set-theoretic concepts, and explains many of the characteristics of human similarity assessment, can be interpreted as a distance in a suitable psychological space. This view unifies a number of different measures of similarity that psychological experiments have determined to be active in humans for different classes of sti...

A female patient referred to the clinic for assessment of a unilateral painful swelling formation on the left anterior maxilla. Anxiety is a psychological condition commonly seen in dental practice. When this psychological alteration affects the patient severely, any dental operation may be found difficult under local anaesthesia. We report a case of one-stage management in a patient with peria...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Morbid obesity is associated with a high prevalence of psychopathological conditions that might have an impact on postsurgery outcomes. This review summarizes recent data about psychological disorders in obese patients before and after bariatric surgery as well as the assessment and impact of these factors on postsurgery outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS Psychological health and qua...

BACKGROUND Providers of bariatric surgery within the National Health Service (NHS) are required to provide psychological assessment and intervention, yet operational definitions regarding the purpose and scope of this input are lacking. This has led to significant variation in the provision of psychology, with some providing an assessment-only service and others providing a more comprehensive p...

OBJECTIVES Psychological factors may be important in the assessment and management of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Our primary objective was to describe associations between disease and psychological status in AS, using AS-specific assessment tools and questionnaires. Our secondary objectives were to identify patient subgroups based on such associations and to determine the stability of the mea...

Measurement of psychological and social factors in studies of musculoskeletal disorders has become increasingly important with the need to show an effect of interventions on individuals' lives. Because information of psychological states involves patients reporting their private sensations, specific issues of their assessment need to be considered. Two of these issues are the problem of what co...

Multiple tender points are common in the population and, in studies of mid-life adults, are strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress. Whether this relationship occurs in older adults is unclear. This cross-sectional study investigated whether high levels of psychological distress would be associated with a high tender point count and whether the relationship would be moder...