Material and method: one hundred and fifty-one consecutive claudicants (100 men, 51 women), and 161 healthy controls (70 men and 91 women) completed an adapted version of the World Health Organisation Quality of Life Assessment Instrument-100.
These scores were validated against the ratings of a relative, partner or close friend of each participant who completed an adapted version of the Adult ADHD rating scale with regards to the participant's behaviour over the preceding 6 months.
Then, in order to measure the psychological variations occurring during the different exposure conditions, subjects completed an adapted version of the PMQ in order to assess their perceived level of anxiety and relax immediately before and after each condition.
39 Parents will complete an adapted version of the family background questionnaire that gathers basic demographic and background information pertaining to both the parent and the child.
Children aged 5 7 years will complete an adapted version of the PSQ8-11, in which answering options are reduced to 'yes/no' instead of the 4-point scale.
NSSI was measured through the use of an adapted version of the Deliberate Self Harm Inventory (ADSHI; original DSHI was developed by Gratz [ 1]).
Communicative behaviours were rated through the use of an adapted version of the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS), a widely used observation system for coding both physician and patient communication (Roter and Larson, 2002).
Finally, the students completed a peer-teaching quality assessment of a Healthy Choices Programme session and were assessed in line with an adapted version of Reeve et al.'s [16] teacher observation sheet (see Fig. 2).
Conflict-related potentially traumatic events (PTEs) were measured through an adapted version of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire.
Physical and sexual (partner) violence was measured through an adapted version of the Abuse Assessment Screen AASS) [ 42], which was adapted in consultation with one of the authors (Prof. dr. Judith McFarlane).
Adverse effects of treatment in both groups were monitored through an adapted version of the Systematic Assessment for Treatment Emergent Events (COMBINE SAFTEE) scale, which is a structured instrument for collecting adverse events adapted for clinical studies in the alcoholism field [ 26].
