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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, differential diagnosis with blood oxygenation, beta/theta ratio, and attention measures
Publication date: May 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 2 Author(s): Paloma González-Castro , Celestino Rodríguez , Ángel López , Marisol Cueli , Luis Álvarez Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the disorders causing the greatest impact, conditioning academic learning, quality of concentration, and capacity for self-regulation and control. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV-TR) establishes the most commonly accepted criteria for diagnosis (Inattentive: ADHD-I, Hyperactive/impulsive: ADHD-HI, and Combine...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Prediction of treatment outcomes and longitudinal analysis in children with autism undergoing intensive behavioral intervention
Publication date: May 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 2 Author(s): Javier Virues-Ortega , Víctor Rodríguez , C.T. Yu Outcome prediction is an important component of treatment planning and prognosis. However, reliable predictors of intensive behavioral intervention (IBI) have not been clearly established. IBI is an evidence-based approach to the systematic teaching of academic, social, verbal, and daily living skills to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Incorporating longitudinal analysis to IBI outcome studies may help to identify outcome predictors of...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A community led approach to delivery of the Parents Plus Children's Programme for the parents of children aged 6–11
Publication date: May 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 2 Author(s): Ailish Hand , Emma McDonnell , Bahman Honari , John Sharry Childhood internalising and externalising disorders tend to persist when left untreated and place affected individuals at higher risk of compromised outcomes. The social costs include school dropout, unemployment, family breakdown and substance abuse. Effective preventive interventions require a public health approach. The aim of this experimental study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parents Plus Children's Programme (PPCP) deli...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Aprendiendo a usar el Researcher-ID como indicador de la producción científica
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): José Alonso Olivas-Ávila , Bertha Musi-Lechuga Las investigaciones enfocadas en la elaboración de mediciones sobre la producción científica implican un procedimiento detallado y de bastante precisión para así evitar errores y malas interpretaciones por terceros. El uso de perfiles públicos de investigadores como es el Researcher ID entre otros, puede resultar atractivo para simplificar los procesos de búsquedas directas en bases de datos. El objetivo de esta investigación es analiza...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Evaluation of the Latin American version of the Life Orientation Test-Revised
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): Markus Zenger , Carolyn Finck , Cristian Zanon , William Jimenez , Susanne Singer , Andreas Hinz The Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) is the most intensively used instrument for the assessment of optimism, but empirical evidence of its psychometric quality in Latin America is lacking. The aim of this study was to test psychometric properties of this questionnaire based on a representative sample of the general population of Colombia (N =1,500). Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the bi-d...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validating the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Indonesia's general population and coronary heart disease patients
This study assesses the validity and determines the cut-off point for the Beck Depression Inventory-II (the BDI-II) among Indonesians. The Indonesian version of the BDI-II (the Indo BDI-II) was administered to 720 healthy individuals from the general population, 215 Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) patients, and 102 depressed patients. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated factorial similarity across the three samples. Significant correlations between the Indo BDI-II and other self-report measures related to depression demonstrated construct validity of the Indo BDI-II. Furthermore, there was a highly significant difference i...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of a revised Spanish 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale adaptation in multiple sclerosis patients
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): Eduardo Fernández-Jiménez , María Ángeles Pérez-San-Gregorio , Graeme J. Taylor , R. Michael Bagby , Lindsay E. Ayearst , Guillermo Izquierdo There have been a small number of investigations of alexithymia in multiple sclerosis (MS) using the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). However, the TAS-20 factor structure has not yet been evaluated in a MS patient sample, and earlier Spanish translations of this instrument require some improvement. We aimed to evaluate the factorial ...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development and validation of the Granada Burnout Questionnaire in Spanish police
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): Emilia I. de la Fuente , Luis M. Lozano , Eduardo García-Cueto , Concepción San Luis , Cristina Vargas , Gustavo R. Cañadas , Guillermo A. Cañadas-De la Fuente , Ronald K. Hambleton The goal of the present study is to develop a questionnaire, with proper psychometric properties and current norms, to evaluate the burnout syndrome in Spain. The operative definition of burnout proposed by Maslach and Jackson is used to define three dimensions (Emotional exhaustion, Depersonalization an...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Maladaptive personality traits in adolescence: Psychometric properties of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero , Mercedes Paino , Serafín Lemos-Giráldez , José Muñiz The Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+ (PDQ-4+) is a self-report used for the assessment of personality disorder traits, however, its psychometric characteristics have yet to be tested in community samples of adolescents. The main goal was to analyze the psychometric properties of the PDQ-4+ scores in a large sample of non-clinical adolescents (N =1,443; M =15.9 years; SD =1.2). The PDQ-4+ scores showed ...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Satisfaction of Health Science teachers with the convergence process of the European Higher Education Area
In conclusion, certain changes would be necessary to achieve real convergence between countries. (Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology)
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Relationships between personality traits and positive/negative sexual cognitions
In this study we examined the relationship between gender, age, religion, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, and obsessiveness on one side and the frequency and content of sexual cognitions experienced as being positive/pleasant or negative/unpleasant on the other. The sample was made up of 1,500 individuals (42.8% men and 57.2% women) aged between 18 and 72 years. Results indicated that all the socio-demographic variables as well as the traits neuroticism, openness to experience, and obsessiveness were important in the prediction of the overall frequency of positive sexual cognitions. Age and neuroticism, ...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Social support, self-esteem and depression: Relationship with risk for sexually transmitted infections/HIV transmission
Publication date: September 2013 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3 Author(s): María Teresa Ramiro , Inmaculada Teva , María Paz Bermúdez , Gualberto Buela-Casal Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are important health problems that affect adolescents. The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between 1) depression, self-esteem and perceived social support and 2) sexual risk behaviors according to gender. The sample used in this ex post facto study was composed of 1,005 adolescents of both sexes aged between 14 and 18 years. Participan...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Moderating role of family and friends’ factors between disocial behavior and consumption in adolescents
This study analyzes the relation between dissocial behaviors and substances consumption in adolescents, and tests the moderating role of social risk factors from family and peers in this relation. 1,239 adolescents of Secondary school, 612 boys and 627 girls, from 11-18 (M =14.39; SD =1.43) from state and private schools completed an adapted questionnaire from the State survey on risk activities for health in adolescents (ESTUDES) and the FRIDA questionnaire about social risk factors. We found that disocial behaviors and consumption are common and are closely related. MHMR analysis confirm the moderate role of two risk fam...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Some thoughts on Likert-type scales
Publication date: January 2014 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 14, Issue 1 Author(s): James Hartley Many articles published in the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology describe the results obtained in studies that have used Likert-type scales. Such scales have advantages and disadvantages and in this article I comment on some of these. In particular I comment on the effects of using scales that start with the positive end and finish with the negative one, and on those that present high ratings on the left - as opposed to the right. I also consider that scores o...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Where to look for information when planning scientific research in Psychology: Sources and channels
Publication date: January 2014 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 14, Issue 1 Author(s): Paula Fernández García , Pablo Esteban Livacic-Rojas , Ellián Tuero Herrero , Guillermo Vallejo Seco It is imperative that researchers invest time in the planning of their research, and it is certainly essential to stop and seek information before making any kind of decision. The present work sets out to guide psychologists in this crucial task. To this end we begin by suggesting a visit to the APA website, where a great deal of relevant information on most topics can be found, whether it ...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research