BACKGROUND Parents of a child with disability must cope with greater demands than those living with a healthy child. Coping refers to a person's cognitive or behavioral efforts to manage the demands of a stressful situation. The Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) is a well-recognized measure of coping among parents of chronically ill children and assesses different coping patterns using...

Nineteen adults who stutter participated in a 3-week intensive stuttering modification treatment program (the Successful Stuttering Management Program [SSMP]). A series of 14 fluency and affective-based measures were assessed before treatment, immediately after treatment, and 6 months after treatment. Measures included stuttering frequency; the Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Ad...

Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, hypermobile type (hEDS) often report a decrease of health-related quality life (HRQoL), symptoms anxiety and depression, show prevalent incidence psychiatric disorders. Still, there seems to be lack more thorough analysis addressing the relations between these entities. We studied HRQoL its depressive subgroups in group patients hEDS ( n = 81) compared comp...

Black university students scored significantly higher than White students on the Maudsley Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (MOCI). They tended to endorse more Cleaning and Checking subscale items in the pathological direction. Subsequent analyses examined whether this finding is a reflection of valid group differences in the prevalence of OCD or a psychometric artifact. Structured interviews we...

BACKGROUND Suicide has been linked to intense negative affect. However, little is known about the range of affects experienced by suicidal persons, or the separate effects of affect valence and intensity. We examine a novel self-report scale, the 17-item Affective Intensity Rating Scale (AIRS), and its relation to suicidality in a high-risk sample. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Patients pres...

the competitive state anxiety inventory (csai-2) is the most widely used instrument to measure competitive anxiety in the literature. the aim of this study was to examine the factorial validity and reliability of persian version of competitive state anxiety inventory-2 regarding intensity, direction, and frequency dimensions. the original form included 27 questions and 3 subscales including som...

The construction and evaluation of a new self-report depression inventory was presented. Altogether 833 subjects participated in the various phases of the study. A sequential item selection strategy resulted in an inventory that provided separate scores for ten subscales: Sad Mood, Fatigue, Learned Helplessness, Guilt, Pessimism, Social Introversion, Irritability, Instrumental Helplessness, Low...

OBJECTIVE To explore if self-reported presence of thinking about tics or body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs; gests) are direct triggers of tic or gest onset in 3 groups: Tourette syndrome (TS; n =18), persistent chronic tic disorders (TDs; n = 42), and a comparison group with BFRB (n = 36). METHOD The 3 groups completed a thinking about tics inventory, listing 22 items derived from cli...