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Emergency department and inpatient coding for self ‐harm and suicide attempts: Validation using clinician assessment data
This study used a clinical sample (n = 5719) containing psychiatry consultations from the emergency departments and inpatient units of the two major tertiary hospitals in Winnipeg, Canada to validate the accuracy of inpatient hospital diagnosis codes at identifying presentations for self‐harm and suicide attempts. The Columbia Classification Algorithm of Suicide Assessment (C‐CASA) was used as the gold standard. International Classification of Diseases version 10 Canadian Enhancement codes for intentional self‐harm, undetermined intent self‐harm, and accidental poisoning were assessed. Measures of validity includ...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jason R. Randall, Leslie L. Roos, Lisa M. Lix, Laurence Y. Katz, James M. Bolton Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

A methodology for assessing deployment trauma and its consequences in OEF/OIF/OND veterans: The TRACTS longitudinal prospective cohort study
Abstract Many US veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq have multiple physical and psychiatric problems. A major focus of research has been on determining the effects of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), but mTBI is rarely diagnosed in the absence of co‐occurring conditions such as blast exposure, post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, substance abuse, etc. These potentially interactive psychological and physical conditions produce complex patterns of cognitive, psychological, and physical symptoms that impede civilian reintegration and complicate efficient and effective treatment planning. The Translational Re...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Regina E. McGlinchey, William P. Milberg, Jennifer R. Fonda, Catherine Brawn Fortier Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well ‐being Study (MPEWS): Understanding maternal mental health, fetal programming and child development. Study design and cohort profile
Abstract Maternal mental health represents a significant global health burden. The Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well‐being Study (MPEWS) was established to provide a comprehensive investigation of early developmental mechanisms and modifiers for maternal, fetal and child emotional well‐being. MPEWS is a prospective, longitudinal study from pregnancy to 36 months postpartum that includes diagnostic measures of maternal mental health, observational measures of the mother–infant relationship, measures of child development, and repeat biological sampling. A total of 282 pregnant women were recruited in early pregnancy ...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Megan Galbally, Marinus IJzendoorn, Michael Permezel, Richard Saffery, Martha Lappas, Joanne Ryan, Elisabeth Rossum, Andrew R. Johnson, Douglas Teti, Andrew J. Lewis Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Presentation and validation of the DuckEES child and adolescent dynamic facial expressions stimulus set
Abstract The stimulus sets presently used to study emotion processing are primarily static pictures of individuals (primarily adults) making emotional facial expressions. However, the dynamic, stereotyped movements associated with emotional expressions contain rich information missing from static pictures, such as the difference between happiness and pride. We created a set of 1.1 s dynamic emotional facial stimuli representing boys and girls aged 8–18. A separate group of 36 individuals (mean [M] age = 19.5 years, standard deviation [SD] = 1.95, 13 male) chose the most appropriate emotion label for each video from...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nicole R. Giuliani, John C. Flournoy, Elizabeth J. Ivie, Arielle Von Hippel, Jennifer H. Pfeifer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Evaluating psychological distress data
Abstract Kessler k6 psychological distress scores are analyzed using a count model and item response theory (IRT) models are applied to the items which produce the k6 score and generate an alternative distress score, θ*. Other ways of utilizing the constituent items are also examined. The data used in the analysis comes from the 2014 National Survey of Drug Use and Health. Three important results emerge. First, θ* and k6 are not highly correlated and their distributions are quite different. The k6 score gives a much more favourable picture of mental health than θ*. Second, k6 does a much better job in explaining partici...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James McIntosh Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Assessing the structure of the CAST (Cannabis Abuse Screening Test) in 13 European countries using multigroup analyses
Abstract Our aims are to describe and explain the structure of the Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) across countries. Standard statistical analyses fail to describe and explain several variables simultaneously while taking account of the group structure of individuals. The 2011 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD): 5204 last‐year cannabis users aged 15–16 from 13 European countries. Multigroup principal component analysis (mgPCA) and multigroup partial least squares (mgPLS). MgPCA shows that the CAST has a two‐dimensional structure (frequency of use/problems and non‐recreational use...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: St éphane Legleye, Aida Eslami, Stéphanie Bougeard Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Person misfit on the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology: Low quality self ‐report or true atypical symptom profile?
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Classifying child and adolescent psychiatric disorder by problem checklists and standardized interviews
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Classifying child and adolescent psychiatric disorder by problem checklists and standardized interviews
Abstract This paper discusses the need for research on the psychometric adequacy of self‐completed problem checklists to classify child and adolescent psychiatric disorder based on proxy assessments by parents and self‐assessments by adolescents. We put forward six theoretical arguments for expecting checklists to achieve comparable levels of reliability and validity with standardized diagnostic interviews for identifying child psychiatric disorder in epidemiological studies and clinical research. Empirically, the modest levels of test–retest reliability exhibited by standardized diagnostic interviews – 0.40 to 0.6...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michael H. Boyle, Laura Duncan, Kathy Georgiades, Kathryn Bennett, Andrea Gonzalez, Ryan J. Van Lieshout, Peter Szatmari, Harriet L. MacMillan, Anna Kata, Mark A. Ferro, Ellen L. Lipman, Magdalena Janus Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

A new statistical model for the Day Reconstruction Method
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Defining the hidden evidence in autism research. Forty per cent of rigorously designed clinical trials remain unpublished ‐ a cross‐sectional analysis
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Measuring the ICD ‐11 adjustment disorder concept: Validity and sensitivity to change of the Adjustment Disorder – New Module questionnaire in a clinical intervention study
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Preferences of psychiatric practitioners for core symptoms of major depressive disorder: a hidden conjoint analysis
Abstract According to ICD‐10 and DSM‐V, symptoms of depressive disorder are considered to be equally important for severity judgment. It was the goal to investigate the weight of selected symptom complexes for severity judgment. In workaday life severity judgment results from an overall impression rather than from calculating severity in different symptom complexes, separately. In fact, the drivers for overall judgment may not be known explicitly to the psychiatrist himself. A method of choice to resolve this is conjoint analysis. Based on the Montgomery–Asberg Depression Scale (MADRS) and the Sheehan Disability Scal...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Matthias W. Riepe, Peter Gritzmann, Andreas Brieden Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Measuring the ICD ‐11 adjustment disorder concept: Validity and sensitivity to change of the Adjustment Disorder – New Module questionnaire in a clinical intervention study
This study presents a validation of the Adjustment Disorder – New Module (ADNM), the first symptom severity measure for AjD according to the ICD‐11 concept. Validity and sensitivity to change were investigated in a sample of 190 individuals with a DSM‐IV diagnosis of AjD. The ADNM scales demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity for anxiety symptoms (Hamilton Anxiety Scale; psychic anxiety r = 0.18–0.31), functional impairment (Sheehan Disability Scale; r = 0.18–0.47), and depression (Montgomery–Asberg Depression Scale; r = 0.13–0.30). At baseline 78% of the individuals with a DSM‐IV diagnosis...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rahel Bachem, Axel Perkonigg, Dan J. Stein, Andreas Maercker Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Defining the hidden evidence in autism research. Forty per cent of rigorously designed clinical trials remain unpublished ‐ a cross‐sectional analysis
This study was designed to quantify publication bias in rigorously designed ASD research. The database at ClinicalTrials.gov was searched for all completed randomized controlled clinical trials investigating interventions in ASD and their results made public. If results could neither be retrieved through search of the database, nor of scientific databases nor by enquiries of the responsible parties or sponsors listed, a trial was defined as not published. The search delivered N = 30 (60%) trials were published, N = 20 (40%) remained unpublished, N = 2,421 (59%) patients were enrolled in the published trials, N = 1,...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - November 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Konstantin Mechler, Georg F. Hoffmann, Ralf W. Dittmann, Markus Ries Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research