"TRAFFIC's analysis confirms the worrying scale of illegal killing of snow leopards," Compton said in the release.
Within each mental illness sample, worrying scale displayed the highest score values whereas the supervision scale showed the highest variation compared to other subscales.
22 Patients' anxiety was measured by questionnaire, including the Spielberger state trait anxiety inventory 23 and a modified cancer worry scale, 24 completed within one week and at three months after the consultation with the lead clinician.
Participants will complete the following psychological measures within 1 week and at 3 months after their consultation with the Lead Clinician: - General and cancer-specific worry: Anxiety using the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI [ 24] and a modified cancer worry scale [ 25]; - Satisfaction with the trial consultation using dimensions of care items from Europep [ 26].
A 6-item self-completed scale, adapted from the breast cancer worry scale, 40 which showed good internal reliability in the CHEST Trial (Cronbach α=0.88).
The same study also found no difference in worry about future risk of heart attacks, measured using the adapted Lerman breast cancer worry scale, or in self-regulation.
Therefore we chose to measure mental health with the widely-used WHO well being index [ 72] and pregnancy specific worries with the Cambridge worry scale [ 73].
Cancer worry scale-revised – CWS-R (Lerman et al, 1993; Watson et al, 1999; Foster et al, 2002): this 6-item scale assesses degree of worry about developing cancer over the previous 7 days.
The DQOLY, developed by the Diabetes Control and Complication Trial Research Group [ 17] and later modified by Ingersoll and Marrero [ 18], is composed of 52 items in four subscales: a Diabetes Life Satisfaction scale, a Diabetes Impact scale, a Diabetes-Related Worries scale, and a single item general self-rating of overall health in a response format of a four- or five-point Likert scale.
