BACKGROUND Individual Social Skills Training (ISST) is a short term, individually delivered intervention (8-10 sessions) that promotes social skills in children with emerging or existing conduct problems. This study examined the effectiveness of ISST immediately and 6 months after the termination of the intervention. METHODS The participants were 198 children (3-12 years) who were randomly as...

The energetics of 2 field tests that reflect physical performance in intermittent sports (i.e., the Interval Shuttle Sprint Test [ISST] and the Interval Shuttle Run Test [ISRT]) were examined in 21 women field hockey players. The ISST required the players to perform 10 shuttle sprints starting every 20 seconds. During the ISRT, players alternately ran 20-m shuttles for 30 seconds and walked for...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia are known to have higher rates of mortality and morbidity when compared to the general population. Suicidality is a major contributor to increased mortality. The International Suicide Prevention Trial (InterSePT) Scale for Suicidal Thinking (ISST) is a validated tool to assess current suicidal ideation in patients with schizophrenia. The aims of the study ...

Two Common Gene Variants on Chromosome 9 and Risk of Atherothrombosis To the Editor: McPherson et al recently reported (in the journal Science) the association of 2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs10757274 and rs2383206) with coronary heart disease (CHD).1 After their report, we examined the possible association of these 2 gene variants with atherothrombotic events using a prospective, neste...

AIM To determine the relationship between scores on five factors of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and Calgary Depression scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS) and scores on the InterSePT Scale for Suicidal Thinking (ISST) in patients with acute schizophrenia. METHODS Data were collected on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of 180 drug-treated in-patients with acute sch...

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