Index of Affective Suffering: Linking a Classification of Depressed Mood to Impairment in Quality of Life
| Autor: | Barry J. Gurland, Sidney Katz, Jiming Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Scoring system Index (economics) Psychometrics Personality Assessment Cost of Illness Quality of life medicine Humans Psychiatry Aged Observer Variation Depressive Disorder Depression Life events Symptom severity Reproducibility of Results Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Quality of Life Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Depressed mood Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 5:192-210 |
| ISSN: | 1064-7481 |
| Popis: | The authors report on development and validation of their Index of Affective Suffering (IAS), an explicit measure of subjective symptom severity, constructed as a typological system, rather than a multifactorial scoring system, with combinations of "intensity" (degrees of distress per given time) and "extensity" (duration and frequency of episodes, and number and variety of life events and activities that are pervaded by distress) item rankings. Seven levels of severity appeared to have both face value and empirical justification. Further conceptual and methodological advances would enhance the development and evaluation of treatments for geriatric mental disorders and chronic diseases in general. |
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