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The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [1] (PROMIS) provides clinicians and researchers access to reliable, valid, and flexible measures of health status that assess physical, mental, and social well–being from the patient perspective. PROMIS measures are standardized, allowing for assessment of many patient-reported ...
The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is a numeric scale used by mental health clinicians and physicians to rate subjectively the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of an individual, i.e., how well one is meeting various problems in living. Scores range from 100 (extremely high functioning) to 1 (severely impaired).
The Ohio Youth Problems, Functioning, Satisfaction Scales (Ohio Scales) are a set of parent-reported [1] [2] and self-reported [3] questionnaires, consisting of four scales used to assess the improvement and outcomes of children and adolescents who have received mental health services.
The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. For instance, in the category of depression, there are over two dozen depression rating scales that have been developed in the past eighty years.
Early versions of healthcare-related quality of life measures referred to simple assessments of physical abilities by an external rater (for example, the patient is able to get up, eat and drink, and take care of personal hygiene without any help from others) or even to a single measurement (for example, the angle to which a limb could be flexed).
Other assessment tools may focus on a specific aspect of the patient's care. For example, the Waterlow score and the Braden scale deals with a patient's risk of developing a Pressure ulcer (decubitus ulcer), the Glasgow Coma Scale measures the conscious state of a person, and various pain scales exist to assess the "fifth vital sign".
Patients score significantly higher on all of the scales, as would be expected. In the development of the HDI, the validity of the subscales (e.g., Depression , Anxiety , Substance Abuse and Psychotic Thinking ) was evaluated by comparing patients with these diagnoses to other patients and to non-patients.
The overall support score (SSQN) is calculated by taking an average of the individual scores across the 27 items. [5] A high score on the SSQ indicates more optimism about life than a low score. Respondents with low SSQ scores have a higher prevalence of negative life events and illness. [6] Scoring is as follows: 1.