Patients 201 patients >18 years of age (mean age 40 y, 53% men) who had bipolar disorder, mania, or a mixed diagnosis confirmed with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSMIII-R considered by the site physician to have severe agitation requiring injections and who had a total score >14 on the 5 item Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale-Excited Component (PANSS-EC) scale with >1 individual sco...

Patients: 418 adolescents aged 13–21 years, presenting at clinic with either of two criteria: endorsed ‘‘stem items’’ for major depression or dysthymia from 12 month Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI-12), one week or more of depressive symptoms in the past month, and a total Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score of >16; or a CES-D score of >24. Exclu...

In 2010, the authors developed, tested, and released a reliable and valid instrument that can be used to assess the quality of inexperienced teachers’ TPACK by examining their detailed written lesson plans. In the current study, the same instrument was tested to see if it could be used to assess the TPACK evident in experienced teachers’ planning in the form of spoken responses to semi-structur...

good test-retest reliability. We used an interview format because it offers the advantage of minimizing missing and inappropriate responses.' In our study, 18 of 19 residents were able to successfully complete the instrument, allowing calculation of a global score. This is an essential part of the PSQI because it is this global score that differentiates good from poor sleepers. Because all of o...

This study found mixed support for the hypothesis that the difference in criterion-related validity between unstructured and structured employment interviews is due solely to the greater reliability of structured interviews. Using data from prior meta-analyses, this hypothesis was tested in 4 data sets by using standard psychometric procedures to remove the effects of measurement error in inter...

Objective: 1) To assess the prevalence of Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome among women attending Gyne OPD of selected hospital. 2) To assess the knowledge and practice of women with PCOS regarding Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. Methodology: Exploratory survey design. A sample of 275 women of 12-49 years of age was selected by Purposive Sampling technique. A structured interview schedule, a structure...

Introduction Our study aimed to assess the impact of managed complications of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) on the patients' assessment of the results as measured by Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I). Materials and methods This was a retrospective study, supplemented with a telephone interview, comparing patients who had complications of TVT procedures with those where no com...

OBJECTIVE Objective measurement of depression remains elusive. Depression has been associated with insecure attachment, and both have been associated with changes in brain reactivity in response to viewing standard emotional and neutral faces. In this study, we developed a method to calculate predicted scores for the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) using personalized stimuli: fMRI imaging...

Evaluating interviewers based on their response rates is complicated in most surveys. By random chance, interviewers may call cases that are more or less difficult to interview. In addition, interviewer response rates can only imperfectly be computed because of the contributions of other interviewers’ prior contacts with those cases (calling a case after a contact from an expert interviewer may...