Reliability and validity of the Diagnostic Scales of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality-2 (SNAP-2) in Italian community-dwelling adults and psychiatric patients.

Introduction: The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the clinician’s subjectivity and its role in the diagnostic assessment. Integrating the criteriological, third-person approach to patient evaluation and psychiatric diagnosis with other approaches that take into account the patient’s subjective and intersubjective experience may bear particular importance in the assessment of very young patients. The ACSE (Assessment of Clinician’s Subjective Experience) instrument may provide a practical way to probe the intersubjective field of the clinical examination; however, its reliability and validity in child and adolescent psychiatrists seeing very young patients is still to be determined. Methods: Thirty-three clinicians and 278 first-contact patients aged 12–17 years participated in this study. The clinicians completed the ACSE instrument and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale after seeing the patient, and the Profile of Mood State (POMS) just before seeing the patient and immediately after. The ACSE was completed again for 45 patients over a short (1–4 days) retest interval. Results: All ACSE scales showed high internal consistency and moderate to high temporal stability. Also, they displayed meaningful correlations with the changes in conceptually related POMS scales during the clinical examination. Discussion: The findings corroborate and extend previous work on adult patients and suggest that the ACSE provides a valid and reliable measure of the clinician’s subjective experience in adolescent psychiatric practice, too. The instrument may prove to be useful to help identify patients in the early stages of psychosis, in whom subtle alterations of being with others may be the only detectable sign. Future studies are needed to determine the feasibility and usefulness of integrating the ACSE within current approaches to the evaluation of at-risk mental states.

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Dissociation In Non-clinical And Clinical Sample Of Czech Adolescents. Reliability And Validity Of The Czech Version Of The Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.03.011 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (7) ◽

pp. 390-395 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

J. Soukup ◽

H. Papežová ◽

A.A. Kuběna ◽

V. Mikolajová

Keyword(s):

Clinical Sample ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Adhd Group ◽

Behavioral Disturbances ◽

Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽

Language Version ◽

Somatoform Dissociation ◽

Dissociative Experiences

AbstractObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Czech language version of the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES) [2].Method653 non-clinical participants and 162 adolescent psychiatric inpatients completed Czech versions of the A-DES and the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20), and provided further information (data regarding demographic variables, diagnoses, further psychopathology).ResultsThe Czech A-DES has very good internal consistency, test-retest reliability and a good validity, though its predictive power is limited. The ADES scores significantly correlate with the measure of somatoform dissociation, a presence of clinician-observed dissociative symptoms, reported traumatic experiences, self injurious behavior, and polysymptomatic diagnostic picture. A-DES scores were significantly higher in ADHD group, but not in a group with a diagnosis of a dissociative disorder.ConclusionThe authors stress that all adolescent psychiatric patients who show more complex behavioral disturbances, have histories of trauma, show self-injurious behaviors or have ADHD diagnosis should be screened for dissociation.

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Reliability and validity of the Hungarian version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI-HUN): comparing psychiatric patients with control subjects

Sleep And Breathing ◽

10.1007/s11325-016-1347-7 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 1045-1051 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Johanna Takács ◽

Róbert Bódizs ◽

Péter Przemyslaw Ujma ◽

Klára Horváth ◽

Péter Rajna ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sleep Quality ◽

Quality Index ◽

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Control Subjects ◽

Hungarian Version

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Reliability and validity of a Mediterranean diet and culinary index (MediCul) tool in an older population with mild cognitive impairment

British Journal Of Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s0007114518002428 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 120 (10) ◽

pp. 1189-1200 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sue Radd-Vagenas ◽

Maria A. Fiatarone Singh ◽

Michael Inskip ◽

Yorgi Mavros ◽

Nicola Gates ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Impairment ◽

Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽

Mediterranean Diet ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Systematic Bias ◽

Older Individuals ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

The Mean ◽

Test Retest Reliability

AbstractDementia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality without pharmacologic prevention or cure. Mounting evidence suggests that adherence to a Mediterranean dietary pattern may slow cognitive decline, and is important to characterise in at-risk cohorts. Thus, we determined the reliability and validity of the Mediterranean Diet and Culinary Index (MediCul), a new tool, among community-dwelling individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A total of sixty-eight participants (66 % female) aged 75·9 (sd 6·6) years, from the Study of Mental and Resistance Training study MCI cohort, completed the fifty-item MediCul at two time points, followed by a 3-d food record (FR). MediCul test–retest reliability was assessed using intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC), Bland–Altman plots and κ agreement within seventeen dietary element categories. Validity was assessed against the FR using the Bland–Altman method and nutrient trends across MediCul score tertiles. The mean MediCul score was 54·6/100·0, with few participants reaching thresholds for key Mediterranean foods. MediCul had very good test–retest reliability (ICC=0·93, 95 % CI 0·884, 0·954, P<0·0001) with fair-to-almost-perfect agreement for classifying elements within the same category. Validity was moderate with no systematic bias between methods of measurement, according to the regression coefficient (y=−2·30+0·17x) (95 % CI −0·027, 0·358; P=0·091). MediCul over-estimated the mean FR score by 6 %, with limits of agreement being under- and over-estimated by 11 and 23 %, respectively. Nutrient trends were significantly associated with increased MediCul scoring, consistent with a Mediterranean pattern. MediCul provides reliable and moderately valid information about Mediterranean diet adherence among older individuals with MCI, with potential application in future studies assessing relationships between diet and cognitive function.

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