Stress and strain at the critical location are determined and used as the input of transfer function for corresponding distresses to evaluate the pavement performance.
Correlations between corresponding impact and distress subscales are shown in bold on the diagonal.
The correlations between the corresponding Impact and Distress scales are shown on the diagonal in Table 2.
Overall, the prevalence rates found in this study for psychiatric disorders (6%), and for major psychological distress, corresponding to distress scores for the preceding 3 days of "considerable" or "very much" (20% for depression, 21% for anxiety, and 19% for mood swings), were lower than those found in other recent investigations.
After adjustment for all important covariates, there was an evident pattern of increasing psychological distress corresponding to the transition from the didactic, to the preclinical and clinical phases of training, with few differences between male and female students.
Above and beyond these associations, there was an evident pattern of increasing psychological distress corresponding to the transition from the didactic/basic science (1st and 2nd), to the preclinical (3rd) and clinical (4th and 5th years) stage of the curriculum.
An average score for all 10 items equal or above 1.85 was used as the cut-off point for mental distress, corresponding to the 1.75 cut-off of HSCL-25 [ 34].
Each of the 17 items is rated on a scale from 0 to 4: not at all, a little bit, somewhat, very much, and extremely; with higher scores corresponding to greater distress the full- scale score thus ranges from 0 to 68.
For psychological distress, the corresponding final adjusted ORs were similar for the two analytical groups (2.21 for n=40,913 and 2.17 for n=24,907).
The results indicated moderately high improvements in pain acceptance across most participants and corresponding declines in pain-related distress.
