Objective This study aims to offer a new approach for quantifying severity of traditional Chinese medicine pattern with multidimensional analysis methods. Methods A scale and theoretical models were constructed based on the definition of liver stagnation spleen deficiency pattern. Clinical data of 344 IBS-D patients from a cross-sectional study was used for feature validation of the model. Co...

Objectives:  The accuracy of diagnosis in mental disorders, such as depression is the basis of correct treatment. The present study aimed to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of the new multidimensional depression scale in diagnosing depressive disorder. Methods: Two groups of participants were assessed by the new multidimensional depression scale (NMDS) and structured clinical inter...

Anxiety relating to a multitude of ecological crises, or eco-anxiety, is subject growing research significance. We used multi-study mixed-methods design explore eco-anxiety in Australia and New Zealand, validating new scale. In Study One, we developed tested 7-item scale (n = 334), finding that this captured some, but not all, experiences eco-anxiety. found people were anxious about range envir...

conclusions the 11 item hausa-mspss index is valid for the assessment of perceived social support among stroke survivors in nigeria. results based on expert panel, clinicians’ review and patients’ feedback, the 12 item hausa-mspss had sufficient face, content and criterion validity. in reliability analysis, the cronbach’s alpha was 0.781. in test-retest reliability analysis, the minimum kappa v...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the role of perfectionism as a phenotypic trait in anorexia nervosa and its relevance across clinical subtypes of this illness. METHOD The Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and the perfectionism subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory were administered to 322 women with a history of anorexia nervosa who were participating in an internati...

We present a new implementation scheme of multidimensional array for handling large scale high dimensional datasets that grows incrementally. The scheme implements a dynamic multidimensional extendible array employing a set of two dimensional extendible arrays. The multidimensional arrays provide many advantages but it has some problems as well. The Traditional Multidimensional array is not dyn...