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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Diagnostic category"”.
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The Relationship of MMPI-A Item Effectiveness to Item Content, Diagnostic Category, and Classification Accuracy
… Harris Lingoes subscales with two homogeneous diagnostic criterion groups (as suggested by Archer, Handel, and Lynch); and finally (3) it reexamines and recalculates Basic scale data using only those items that were shown by Archer, Handel, and Lynch (2001) to effectively discriminate between …
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Transport of critically ill children in a resource-limited setting
… Data were collected for patient demographics and diagnostic category, referring hospital, transferring personnel, mode of transport, and the incidence of technical, clinical, and critical adverse events. Data are median (interquartile range, IQR). The transfers of 202 children, median age 2.8 …
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RECEIVING A MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS AND FIRST TERM ATTRITION (FTA) IN U.S. NAVY SAILORS: A 10-YEAR PANEL STUDY
… mental health measures from an “all-inclusive” diagnostic category to broad categories and an individual diagnostic specification in a joint model. Linear probability models provide robustness checks. Results indicate heterogeneous associations: the elevated risk suggested by “any diagnosis” …
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The Relation Between Externalizing Behaviors of Children With an Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Externalizing Behaviors, Internalizing Symptoms, and Social Problems of Their Typically-Developing Siblings
… provided data via online questionnaires. Both diagnostic category and autism symptoms severity were tested as possible moderators, but neither produced significant interactions with externalizing behaviors in the child with an ASD or an age/gender matched control child when predicting …
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The Relationship Between Co-Dependence and Borderline Personality Disorder
… and psychiatry and remains an unverified diagnostic category. It has been compared with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and this relationship was investigated.</p> <p>Method. Representative samples of the voluminous literature on CODC and BPD were reviewed in an effort to identify …
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Concurrent Validity of the Clinical Assessment of Depression with the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition
… as falling within a clinically significant diagnostic category of depression. Overall, results indicate that the CAD is a valid measure of depressive symptomatology in college students.
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Comparing symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders using the current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria and the proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria
… Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) share overlapping diagnostic criteria. As a result, there has been an enduring debate regarding the appropriateness of the current categorical classification system used to diagnose this group of disorders, commonly referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). …
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A Profile Analysis of the SCL-90-R for Aggressive and Nonaggressive Adolescents with Conduct Disorder : a Comparison of Aggression and Nonaggression in Relationship to Psychoticism and Depression, Hostility and Anxiety
… conduct-disorderd youth together in the same category (Solitary Aggressive Type). However, the symptoms and behavior of aggressive and nonaggressive youth are so diverse, they should be placed in totally separate categories. The implications of misdiagnosis are serious for rehabilitation and …
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The Baby and Infant Screen for Children with Autism Traits: A DSM-5 Update
… to inform early ASD diagnosis. Recently, the ASD diagnostic category underwent significant revisions. In response to revisions, it is necessary to adapt preexisting measures to reflect these significant changes in order to maintain diagnostic accuracy. The Baby and Infant Screen for Children with …
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A Study Of The Discriminative Function Of Six Variables In 9-12-Year-Old Males With Learning Disabilities
… <p>Greater discriminative power to clarify the diagnostic category of learning disabilities is needed. Research identifies many types of learning disabled populations. Studies do not indicate that the six variables used in this project had been combined and used in a project prior to this. Using …
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The evidence basis of diving and hyperbaric medicine - a synthesis of the high level clinical evidence with meta-analysis
… searchable web site at www.hboevidence.com. Each diagnostic category identified was considered for inclusion in a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. Results: The database includes 130 critical appraisals covering 173 separate reports. The site has received more than 17,000 hits. There …
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Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology
… from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This roughly coincided with the opening of China after Nixon’s famous visit, and for the first time in many years, Western academics were welcomed back into China to research and collaborate. …
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Asphyxia neonatorum in a developing world situation : a study of the impact of asphyxia neonatorum in term infants on the pattern of handicap in the Ciskei; an evalution of its epidemiology and a trial of the efficacy of current therapy
… insults, was by far the largest diagnostic category (57%). Asphyxia therefore appears to be the single largest cause of significant handicap in Ciskei. In view of the underdeveloped support services to parents in most developing areas, the problem of asphyxia is of considerable …
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The Production of Autism Diagnoses within an Institutional Network: Towards a Theory of Diagnosis
… which eventually leads to the assignment of the diagnostic label of autism. Diagnosis is not an isolated act; rather, it is a prolonged process that is neither independent of the content of the diagnostic category itself nor its history. Based on participant observation, in-depth interviews and …
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The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922
… tuberculosis served as a flexible discursive and diagnostic category—one that wavered between hereditary, environmental, and microbial explanations, and came to reflect larger anxieties about urbanization and civic virtue. TB thus became a means to articulate ideals of the hygienic citizen, …
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Apathy and Impulsivity in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Syndromes
… recent years, driving the development of novel diagnostic criteria. However, phenotypic boundaries are not always distinct and syndromes converge with disease progression, limiting the insights available from traditional diagnostic classification. Alternative transdiagnostic approaches may …
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Assessing and changing the student teacher and his learning environment with student ratings and peer group counseling sessions
… choice rating scale called the Student Teacher Diagnostic Questionnaire. This evaluation form completed by the students during the fourth week of student teaching determined the students assessment of the student teacher and his learning environment. The second element consisted of three "Peer …
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Asperger's Syndrome and Non-verbal Learning Disabilities: A study of differential diagnosis agreement across disciplines
… a clinical perspective that is dependent upon Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-TR (DSM-IV) criteria for a differential diagnosis. School-based clinicians are bound by regulations governing special education placement established by Individuals with Disabilities Education …
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Provision of physiotherapy services for children in Intensive Care Units in Uganda: A descriptive study
… the study site nor any specific admission diagnostic category was independently associated with being referred for physiotherapy. Chest physiotherapy (CPT), using passive manual techniques of percussions (89.6%) and vibrations (88.8%), was the most common form of physiotherapy. Passive limb …
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Persistence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Functional Impairment From Childhood Through Adolescence
… lifestyle changes, not all children will meet diagnostic criteria in adulthood. However, most children with ADHD are likely to continue to display symptoms into adolescence to an extent inappropriate for their age. The specific aims of this project were to (1) characterize the persistence of …