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Concurrent Validity of the PHQ-9 in English and Spanish

Depression in the United States remains undertreated because of poor screening, resulting in half of the adult patients not diagnosed with major depression. There are barriers that lead to poor screening for depression, including language, availability of appropriate devices, and ease of use of a validated instrument for screening. The Patient Health Assessment Questionnaire – 9 (PHQ-9) is recommended for screening in primary care; it has been found to be effective and easy-to-use screening device and validated for this purpose, but only in English. Purpose: A quantitative correlational study to demonstrate the concurrent validity of the Spanish PHQ-9 with the English PHQ-9 in screening for depression in Spanish-speaking patients. Method: The study included a cohort of 10 primary care clinics in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, which during a 6-week period collected data from 397 participants who were bilingual (read and write) in both English and Spanish. This was a quantitative correlational study using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) analysis for this study; the researchers examined the concurrent validity of the Spanish version of the PHQ-9 for screening for depression as compared to the English version of the PHQ-9 item by item (paired items), comparing total scores and provisional diagnosis scores. Results: The Spanish version of the PHQ-9 compared to the English version of the PHQ-9 had an ICC [>.9]. For each paired item an ICC [.970], for paired items total scores an ICC [.992], and for paired items provisional diagnosis scores of depression [.981]. Conclusions: The results demonstrated the translated psychometrics of the English PHQ-9 into Spanish are retained and the use of the Spanish version of the PHQ-9 is a valid instrument for assessing depressive symptoms in patients.

Having a Positive Attitude or Doing Good Deeds? An Experimental Investigation of Poker Players’ Responses to the Gambling Fallacies Measure

Gambling fallacies are irrational beliefs about how gambling works, which are common among disordered gamblers, and measured by questionnaires such as the Gambling Fallacies Measure (GFM). Less is known about the potentially rational cognitions of some skilled gamblers, such as professional poker players. The present research experimentally manipulated item 5 from the GFM, “A positive attitude or doing good deeds increases your likelihood of winning money when gambling”, by comparing two new versions focusing only on a “positive attitude” or “doing good deeds” to the original version (control). Item 5 is scored so that “disagree” is the non-fallacious correct answer, but it was hypothesized that the words “a positive attitude” might increase rates of poker players selecting “agree” in a non-fallacious manner. Online experiments were conducted on samples of professional poker players (N = 379), and a broad sample of poker players with no inclusion criteria (N = 1,510). Participants’ responses to item 5 were associated with the rest of their GFM scores (GFM-9). Participants in both samples were more likely to disagree with the good deeds version, and less likely to disagree with the positive attitude version, compared to control. In comparison to the other conditions, good deeds responses were most strongly associated with GFM-9 scores among professionals, while positive attitude responses were least strongly associated with GFM-9 scores among the broad sample. The good deeds version of item 5 has advantageous measurement properties among professional poker players. New approaches are needed to better understand the potentially rational cognitions of skilled gamblers.

Overlapping as final-item completion in Mandarin conversation

Abstract This study locates as its focus the site for the final item in a sentence-in-progress as a late but systematic opportunity space for co-completing sentences by another speaker, and as a systematic site for brief overlaps. A second speaker may supply a version of the final item as projected by the grammatical structure of the sentence-so-far in given contexts to offer assistance for the searched-for final item upon the current speaker’s displayed delivery trouble, or to show an early recognition of what the current turn is doing and what it takes for its completion in the absence of any display of delivery trouble. The overlap in the first case may be ‘accidental’ when the first speaker is able to produce his/her own final item a moment later, or it may be an ‘achieved’ early start in the second case. The same opportunity space may also be ‘exploited’. Final items proposed by the second speaker may generate a local sequence where its acceptability becomes relevant. Post-overlap responses by the first speaker often show acceptance, sometimes with qualification. We argue that overlapping final-item completion is a result of speakers’ active participation and high involvement, and is motivated by the fundamental baseline of cooperation and collaboration in human social interaction.

Post-Intensifying

Language is a “moving target”; the meaning and use of elements of a language can change so that former understandings and explanations become insufficient. The contemporary, American English colloquial use of the ass-intensifier, such as in “a grown-ass man”, is an example of that. This article is an examination of the ass-intensifier and a comparison with its Danish counterpart røv, exploring the similarities and dissimilarities. It will be argued that the English intensifier is post-intensifying and has two distinct meanings; furthermore, that intensification by a grammaticalized version of a lexical item for posterior is not exclusively an English phenomenon, showing a cross-linguistic link.

Association between the social support for mothers of patients with eating disorders, maternal mental health, and patient symptomatic severity: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundAlthough caregivers of patients with eating disorders usually experience a heavy caregiving burden, the effects of social support on caregivers of patients with eating disorders are unknown. This study aimed to investigate how social support for mothers who are caregivers of patients with an eating disorder improves the mothers’ mental status and, consequently, the symptoms and status of the patients.MethodsFifty-seven pairs of participants were recruited from four family self-help groups and one university hospital in Japan. Recruitment was conducted from July 2017 to August 2018. Mothers were evaluated for social support using the Japanese version of the Social Provisions Scale-10 item (SPS-10), self-efficacy using the General Self-Efficacy Scale, loneliness using the University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, listening attitude using the Active Listening Attitude Scale, family functioning using the Family Assessment Device, depression symptoms using the Beck Depression Inventory (Second Edition), and psychological distress using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. Patients were evaluated for self-esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, assertion using the Youth Assertion Scale, and their symptoms using the Eating Disorder Inventory. We divided the mothers and patients into two groups based on the mean score of the SPS-10 of mothers and compared the status of mothers and patients between the high- and low-scoring groups.ResultsHigh social support for mothers of patients with eating disorders was significantly associated with lower scores for loneliness and depression of these mothers. We found no significant differences in any patient scores based on mothers’ level of social support.ConclusionsFor patients with eating disorders, social support for a caregiver cannot be expected to improve their symptoms, but it may help prevent caregiver depression and loneliness.

T88. VALIDATION OF THE KOREAN VERSION OF THE 15-ITEM COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES (CAPE-15) IN A COLLEGE POPULATION

BackgroundThe Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-Positive 15-items scale (CAPE-15) is another brief, valid screening tool used to identify people at high risk of psychosis in the community. This study examined the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the CAPE-15 in university students.MethodsThis study had two stages: initial screening with self-report questionnaires including the CAPE-15, and semi-structured interviews to investigate the instrument’s diagnostic validity. The initial screening involved 1,749 college students. The modified Korean version of Prodromal Questionnaire-16 item (mKPQ-16) was also administered. The criteria for ultra-high risk (UHR) of psychosis in the Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States (CAARMS) were the gold standard for diagnosis.ResultsTwelve of the interviewed subjects met the CAARMS criteria for UHR of psychosis. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was highest (0.936) for the CAPE-15 distress score (p<0.001). The use of 6 as the cutoff for the CAPE-15 distress score resulted in the best balance of sensitivity (91.7%) and specificity (85.2%), with a favorable positive predictive value of 32.4%. The coefficients of correlation between the CAPE-15 and mKPQ-16 were significant.DiscussionThis study showed that the CAPE-15 is a good screening instrument for use in community and school settings. In particular, the better validity of the CAPE-15 suggests that it is a promising alternative to other brief self-report screening tools that are currently used to detect UHR. This validation of a questionnaire with a small number of items may make it feasible to screen large numbers of young adults in the community and shorten the duration of untreated psychosis through prompt early intervention.

Validation of the Korean Version of the 15-Item Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences in a College Population.

ObjectiveTo investigate the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-15 item positive scale (CAPE-15) in college students. MethodsThis study had two stages: initial screening with self-report questionnaires including the CAPE-15, and semi-structured interviews to investigate the instrument’s diagnostic validity. The initial screening involved 1,749 college students. The modified Korean version of Prodromal Questionnaire-16 item (mKPQ-16) was also administered. The criteria for ultra-high risk (UHR) of psychosis in the Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States (CAARMS) were the gold standard for diagnosis. ResultsTwelve of the interviewed subjects met the CAARMS criteria for UHR of psychosis. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was highest (0.936) for the CAPE-15 distress score (p<0.001). The use of 6 as the cutoff for the CAPE-15 distress score resulted in the best balance of sensitivity (91.7%) and specificity (85.2%), with a favorable positive predictive value of 32.4%. The coefficients of correlation between the CAPE-15 and mKPQ-16 were significant. ConclusionThe Korean version of the CAPE-15 is a good instrument for screening for psychosis risk in collegiate settings. The validation of this scale could contribute to the early identification of psychosis in the Korean community.

Clinical research of Kinesio taping combined with warm needling for knee osteoarthritis

Objective To investigate the efficacy of Kinesio taping combined with warm needling on knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and its effect on serum levels of immune globulin(Ig)A, IgG, IgM. Methods Sixty-two KOA patients who met the inclusion criteria were divided into 2 groups by random number table (31 cases in each group). The control group was treated with routine thrapy. Based on the control group, the observation group was treated with Kinesio taping combined with warm needling. After 6 weeks treatment, scores of visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to evaluate knee pain, Japanese orthopaedic association (JOA) scale was used to evaluate knee function, and Lequesne index was used to evaluate disease severity. The score of TCM clinical symptoms was conducted according to the KOA symptom grading quantification table, and the quality of life was evaluated according to the Chinese version of the MOS item short from health survey (SF-36). The Immunoglobulin(Ig)A, IgG and IgM levels were detected by ELISA method. Results The total effective rate in the observation group was 93.5%, and the control group was 71.0% (28/31). The difference was statistically significant between two groups (χ2=5.415, P=0.020).The total effective rate of clinical symptoms in traditional Chinese medicine in the observation groups as 90.3% (28/31) was higher than the control group as 64.5% (20/31), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=5.905, P=0.015). After treatment, the serum level of IgA (2.91 ± 0.35 ng/ml vs. 4.50 ± 0.50 ng/ml, t=7.621), IgG (11.17 ± 1.31 pmol/L vs. 15.83 ± 1.94 pmol/L, t=13.523), IgM (3.14 ± 0.44 pmol/L vs. 5.44 ± 0.62 pmol/L, t=8.441) were significantly lower than control group (P<0.01). After 6 weeks’ treatment, tthe scores of VAS, Lequesne index, and clinical symptom of traditional Chinese medicin of the observation group were significant lower than those of the control group (t=7.765 and 9.903 respectively, all Ps<0.01), but the scores of JOA and the SF-36 were significantly higher than those of the control group (t=18.441, P<0.01). After 6 weeks’ treatment, the scores of pain in bed at night, morning stiffness, walking pain, pain from sitting up, maximum walking distance, daily activities, walking up stairs, walking down stairs, bending knee joint score in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group (t=8.933, 9.112, 9.225, 8.809, 9.240, 8.910, 7.903, 8.033, 7.031, respectively, all Ps<0.01), but the scores of physical pain, physiological function, physiological function, vitality, social function, emotional function, mental health in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (t=12.450, 13.446, 13.779, 9.003, 13.331, 12.440, 15.309, all Ps<0.01). Conclusions The kinesio taping combined with warm needling can improve symptoms of traditional Chinese medicine and reduce pain of KOAand increase quality of life with the regulation of IgA, IgG, IgM. Key words: Osteoarthritis, knee; Needle warming therapy; Kinesio taping; Intramuscular absorption; Pain arthralgia; Therapies, investigational

Kinetically Controlled Localization of Carbon Nanotubes in Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blend Nanocomposites and Their Influence on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding, Electrical Conductivity, and Rheological Properties

Copyright: 2019 American Chemical Society. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file contains the abstract version of the full-text item. For access to the full-text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol 123, pp. 19195-19207

The interoception and imagination loop in hypnotic phenomena

We tested a working hypothesis that the ideomotor and motor-control suggestions measured by current hypnotizability scales depend on the activation of an interoception-imagination processing loop. In three experiments, participants were exposed to an induction phase, Items 3 (mosquito hallucination) and 8 (arm immobilization) of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C, and a new version of Item 8 involving the additional activation of imaginative and interoception processes. We found that this modified version of Item 8 elicited greater responsiveness to suggestion, irrespective of its position in the sequence of hypnotic items. We argue that this interoception-imagination loop hypothesis provides a useful information processing analysis for understanding several hypnotic phenomena.

Bayesian Structural Time-Series Approach to a Long-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting

Copyright: 2018 Natural Sciences Publishing. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract version of the full-text item. For access to the full-text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, Vol 13(2), pp. 189-199

Cross-Validation of the Turkish Version of the 28-Item Impact of Vision Impairment Profile Test

Purpose: To translate the original 28-item Impact of Vision Impairment Profile into Turkish and to investigate its validity and reliability. Methods: Patients with no limitations to respond and affected by a chronic eye disease including retinitis pigmentosa (RP), age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) and diabetic macular edema which cause low vision were enrolled. The Turkish version of the IVI test was administered to all participants. The linguistic translation followed the international guidelines of forward and backward translation. 256 subjects who had a Snellen visual acuity of 6/12 or worse in the eye with best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) completed the Turkish version of the IVI-28 item. Psychometric evaluation of the Turkish IVI test involved the assessment of internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent and known-groups validity. Results: The mean (±SD) age of the participants was 53.67 ± 17.22 years. There were 256 patients with one of the following conditions: 105 RP (41%), 77 ARMD (30%), 74 DME (29%). Patients with lower visual acuity (VA) had lower index scores than those with higher VA (p = 0.001), which showed a sufficient responsiveness. Conclusion: Statistical analysis showed that Turkish version of the IVI-28 item is a valid and reliable instrument to measure vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) in patients with low vision.

Real-time path planning for high speed UGVs

Copyright: 2019 Inderscience Publishers. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file contains the abstract version of the full-text item. For access to the full-text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, vol. 18(6), pp. 623-639

An efficient content sharing scheme using file splitting and differences between versions in hybrid peer-to-peer networks

This paper proposes an efficient content sharing strategy using file splitting and difference between versions in hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this strategy, when a user requests a content item, he/she can get it from the network by retrieving the other version of the content item and the difference from the requested version, if the obtaining cost of the requested version is expensive. This way of content sharing can be expected to accomplish effective and flexible operation. Furthermore, efficient utilisation of a peer's storage capacity is achieved by splitting each replica of a content item into several small blocks and storing them separately in the plural peers.

An efficient content sharing scheme using file splitting and differences between versions in hybrid peer-to-peer networks

This paper proposes an efficient content sharing strategy using file splitting and difference between versions in hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this strategy, when a user requests a content item, he/she can get it from the network by retrieving the other version of the content item and the difference from the requested version, if the obtaining cost of the requested version is expensive. This way of content sharing can be expected to accomplish effective and flexible operation. Furthermore, efficient utilisation of a peer's storage capacity is achieved by splitting each replica of a content item into several small blocks and storing them separately in the plural peers.

A Review of the Effect of AC/DC Interference on Corrosion and Cathodic Protection Potentials of Pipelines

Copyright: 2018 Praise Worthy Prize. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract version of the full-text item. For access to the full-text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in International Review of Electrical Engineering, vol 13(6), pp. 495-508

A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis

A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis

The housing careers of black middle-class residents in a South African metropolitan area

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Validity of the Sinhala Version of the General Health Questionnaires Item 12 and 30: Using Different Sampling Strategies and Scoring Methods

Validity of the Sinhala Version of the General Health Questionnaires Item 12 and 30: Using Different Sampling Strategies and Scoring Methods

A correlation study of self-management and quality of life of patients with hypertension

Objective To describe the current situation of self-management and quality of life of community patients with hypertension and to explore the correlation of self-management and quality of life. Methods The hypertension self-management scale and the Chinese version of the medical outcomes study item short from health survey(SF-36) were applied to investigate 224 patients with hypertension in two communities of Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. Results The mean score of those patients′ self-management was(73.15±5.78); the mean score of the quality of life was (71.78±18.84), which was at the medium level; the mean score of each dimension in the quality of life was lower than that of the norm(P<0.05); the total score of self management and the dimensions of physiological function, energy, emotional function of quality of life were positively correlated(P<0.05). Conclusions The quality of life of those patients is not at a high level, so their self management abilities should be further improved in order to enhance their quality of life. Key words: Hypertension; Community; Self-management; Quality of life