Culture and validity of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and Profile of Mood States in a New Zealand student sample.

Barker‐Collo, Suzanne

doi:10.1037/1099-9809.9.2.185

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“…Subsequently, we fitted two log-binomial regression models separately for male and female “high scorer” and obtained adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% CI. Our choice of log-binomial versus the more common logistic regression was based on the fact that odds ratios obtained from logistic regression tend to overestimate the true effect size when the outcome under study is common (>20%) and because prevalence ratios are more readily interpretable compared to odds ratios in cross-sectional studies [46,47]. We used Stata version 12.1 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, United States) for all data analyses.…”

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Psychological distress and its correlates among dental students: a survey of 17 Colombian dental schools

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BackgroundLinks between the demanding nature of studies in the health sciences, students’ personality traits and psychological distress have been well-established. While considerable amount of work has been done in medicine, evidence from the dental education arena is sparse and data from Latin America are lacking. The authors conducted a large-scale investigation of psychological distress among dental students in Colombia and sought to determine its curriculum and student-level correlates.MethodsThe Spanish version of the Derogatis’ Symptoms Checklist Revised (SCL-90-R) was administered to all students officially registered and attending classes or clinics in 17 dental schools in 4 geographic districts of Colombia between January and April 2012. Additional information was collected on participants’ socio-demographic information and first career choice, as well as school’s characteristics such as class size. The Global Severity Index (GSI) score, a measure of overall psychological distress, served as the primary analytical endpoint. Analyses relied on multilevel mixed-effects linear and log-binomial regression, accounting for study design and sample characteristics.ResultsA total of 5700 dental students completed the survey, a response rate of 67%. Pronounced gradients were noted in the association between socio-economic status and psychological distress, with students in higher strata reporting fewer problems. After adjustment for all important covariates, there was an evident pattern of increasing psychological distress corresponding to the transition from the didactic, to the preclinical and clinical phases of training, with few differences between male and female students. Independent of other factors, reliance on own funds for education and having dentistry as the first career choice were associated with lower psychological distress.ConclusionsLevels of psychological distress correlated with students’ socio-economic and study-level characteristics. Above and beyond the influence of person-level factors, variations in levels of distress paralleled specific transitional stages of the 5-year dental curriculum, providing opportunities for targeted interventions.

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Psychological distress and its correlates among dental students: a survey of 17 Colombian dental schools

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“…Individual items were summed to produce a total score, and higher scores indicated greater anxiety. Validity for the POMS was established using several other anxiety measures such as the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised and the Bradburn Positive and Negative Affect Scales (Cronbach alpha = 0.9; three items) (Baker, Denniston, Zabora, Polland, & Dudle, 2002; Barker-Collo, 2003). …”

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Exploring Spirituality in Family Caregivers of Patients With Primary Malignant Brain Tumors Across the Disease Trajectory

Newberry¹,

Choi²,

Donovan³

et al. 2013

Oncology Nursing Forum

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Purpose/Objectives To determine whether the perceived level of spirituality in family caregivers of patients with primary malignant brain tumors (PMBTs) changes across the disease trajectory. Design Ongoing descriptive, longitudinal study. Setting Southwestern Pennsylvania. Sample 50 family caregivers of patients with PMBT. Methods Caregivers and care recipients were recruited at time of diagnosis. Participants were interviewed at two subse-quent time points, four and eight months following diagnosis. Main Research Variables Care recipients’ symptoms, neuro-psychologic status, and physical function, as well as caregiver social support. Findings Results showed no significant difference in spirituality scores reported at baseline and eight months (p = 0.8), suggesting that spirituality may be a stable trait across the disease trajectory. Conclusions Spirituality remains relatively stable along the course of the disease trajectory. Reports of caregiver depressive symptoms and anxiety were lower when paired with higher reports of spirituality. Implications for Nursing Clinicians can better identify caregivers at risk for negative outcomes by identifying those who report lower levels of spirituality. Future interventions should focus on the development and implementation of interventions that provide protective buffers such as increased social support. Knowledge Translation Spirituality is a relatively stable trait. High levels of spirituality can serve as a protective buffer from negative mental health outcomes. Caregivers with low levels of spirituality may be at risk for greater levels of burden, anxiety, and stress.

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“…The POMS and its short-forms have been used with various populations of medical patients (Curran, Andrykowski & Studts 1995;Guadagnoli & Mor, 1989;Wyrwich & Yu, 2011;Baker, Denniston, Zabora, Polland, & Dudley 2002;Walker, Sprague, Sleator, & Ullmann 1988), children (Walker et al, 1988), adolescents (Terry, Lane, & Fogarty 2003), university students (Barker-Collo, 2003;Reddon, Marceau, & Holden 1985), working adults (Morfeld, Petersen, Kruger-Bodeker, von Mackensen, & Bullinger 2007), athletes (Bell & Howe, 1988) and older adults (Gibson, 1997;Shin & Colling, 2000;Nyenhuis, Yamamoto, Luchetta, Terrien, & Parmentier 1999). Construction of the POMS 2-A was based on a normative sample of 1000 North American adults, with stratified random sampling to approximate the USA 2000 census.…”

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Measures of Affect Dimensions

Boyle

Helmes

Matthews

et al. 2015

Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs

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Culture and validity of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and Profile of Mood States in a New Zealand student sample.

Cited by 53 publications

References 42 publications

Psychological distress and its correlates among dental students: a survey of 17 Colombian dental schools

Psychological distress and its correlates among dental students: a survey of 17 Colombian dental schools

Exploring Spirituality in Family Caregivers of Patients With Primary Malignant Brain Tumors Across the Disease Trajectory

Measures of Affect Dimensions

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