Maternal antenatal corticosteroid administration reduces the risk of neonatal death and respiratory distress (complete course defined as more than 1 dose of steroids given, and 1st dose at more than 24 h and less than 8 days before birth) [ 94– 94].
While using a five-point Likert Scale, 22 participants (73.3 %) reported that they experienced no distress when completing the scale, 5 (16.7 %) reported feeling "a little" distress and only 31010 %) reported experiencing "moderate" distress.
Prior to each interview patients reported their own levels of distress by completing two self-report questionnaires.
Indeed, recent research shows that most adolescents do not report increased distress when completing surveys which address sensitive topics, which include questions about suicidal behavior, illicit drug use and physical and sexual abuse [ 12].
Daily monitoring of pain-related distress was also completed.
The K-10 is a measure of psychological distress and was completed prior to beginning each lesson.
Questionnaires regarding biographical information and burnout and distress complaints were completed at home during the week before the psychosocial stress procedure in the laboratory.
To quantify the individual tinnitus related distress, all subjects completed the 'Tinnitus Fragebogen' (TF; [ 33]; adapted from the Tinnitus Questionnaire [ 34]).
To measure baseline longer-term mood, participants repeated the above happiness, sadness, fear, disgust and distress scales and completed a further three mood questionnaires probing how they had felt on average in the week prior to the experiment.
c) Ratings of current symptoms and level of distress: The interviewer completed the 24-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-24) [ 55] to quantify general psychiatric symptoms (this assessment was undertaken as near as possible to the neuropsychological testing).
