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- Chaplin, John, 1955, et al.
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DISABKIDS Smiley questionnaire. The TAKE 6 Assisted Health-related Quality of Life measure for 4 to 7 year olds.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. - : Wiley. - 1099-0879 .- 1063-3995. ; 15:3, s. 173-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The DISABKIDS Smiley TAKE 6 was developed to meet the need for a research instrument to measure the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of children 4–7 years old. TAKE 6 is a European generic assisted-report questionnaire with a proxy version. The items of TAKE 6, scored using a five-point Likert scale, cover a single HrQoL domain. Child and parent focus groups identified the statements which, following a European pilot study, were reduced to six items. A field study of 435 children with a chronic disease in seven European countries revealed that the questionnaire had good reliability (inter-class correlation 0.69), had convergent validity with the KINDL-R (child quality of life questionnaire-revised) (rho 0.60) and satisfactory construct validity showing separation between severity and different medical conditions. The questionnaire was understandable by young children and could be completed within two minutes.
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- Raune, D, et al.
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The simulation heuristic and visual imagery in pessimism for future negative events in anxiety
- 2005
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Ingår i: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. - : JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD. - 1063-3995 .- 1099-0879. ; 12:4, s. 313-325
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A salient feature of clinical anxiety and its disorders is an elevated subjective probability judgement that future negative events will happen to the individual. A neglected area of research is the cognitive mechanisms that might underlie this judgement in patient populations. First, we investigated the ease of being able to simulate imaginary negative events happening to the individual ('the simulation heuristic'). Second, we conducted the first investigation to our knowledge into the possible role of visual imagery characteristics on subjective probability for negative events. Twenty-six patients who had a clinical level of anxiety and 26 low-anxiety control participants simulated mentally and also formed visual images of future negative events. They then rated the likelihood of the events happening to them. As predicted, with anxious patients the simulation heuristic was correlated with subjective probability, and they reported increased access to their simulations compared to control participants. The visual image results were more complex: anxious patients' ease of image formation was correlated with subjective probability but did not differ from that of the control participants, and vividness and dismissibility were enhanced in anxious patients but did not correlate with subjective probability. Clinically, helping anxious patients to improve their access to simulations of why events will not happen may help lower their subjective probability. Future research could seek to confirm this experimentally in a clinical intervention study, as well as isolate further the different roles particular visual image characteristics may play in specific aspects of clinical anxiety. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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