If the STIPO should be acceptable as an instrument for the determination of personality functioning in the sense of DSM-5 it must be able to differentiate between patients with and without personality disorder and between different degrees of severity among patients with personality disorders.
–What were some of the positions taken by your country at the NATO Prague Summit, held in November 2002, where members of the Alliance discussed necessary transformations to ensure NATO's ability to function as an instrument for meeting current security needs of its members?
While the liberal Swedish regulations are intended to function as an instrument for integration into Swedish society, Denmark regards citizenship as a reward for a completed integration.
A tool is an instrument for carrying out a particular function; in the context of this review an instrument for collecting information on maternity care performance.
The Constant score is a test procedure with mixed weightings and is used as an instrument for the assessment of shoulder function.
The TAI is an instrument for the measurement of elderly function, and is composed of four scales representing mobility, eating, toileting, and mental status [ 11, 12].
For example, results of an instrument for measuring mental health should not be too highly correlated with an instrument for measuring physical function [ 23].
Cooperation with normal citizens is an important instrument for the functioning of the state.
As the ICF is the international standard for describing functioning and disability it would be the appropriate tool to form the basis for developing an instrument to evaluate the functioning decrements in IBD.
The self-report version of the SDQ [ 27, 30] is a screening instrument for psychosocial functioning for children and adolescents.
However, in recent years, there has been an increased interest in the development of rating instruments for executive functioning.
