The Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ; Marsh, Richards, Johnson, Roche, & Tremayne, 1994) is an internationally established instrument for the measurement of the physical self, featuring a total of 11 scales.
The EORTC QLQ-C30 is an established instrument for measuring HRQoL in various cancers [ 27].
Therefore an established instrument for psychotic symptom screening, the BPRS, was used to examine any correlation between the severity of psychotic symptoms and C-AES scores.
To our knowledge there is no established instrument for target groups with an elevated risk for developmental hazards (such as AIA), that assesses a broad array of familial RPF.
The EORTC QLQ-C30 is an established instrument for measuring quality of life in cancer patients and contains 30 items that measure five functional scales, global quality of life and several cancer related symptoms.
The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) [ 6] is the most established instrument for measuring insomnia symptoms, however there is only one out of 7 items that targets the psychological symptoms, namely being worried about the current sleep pattern.
The question whether QoL assessment by both self and parent proxy report can identify psychiatric health services needs not detected by an established instrument for assessing mental health problems, i.e. the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), has never been examined and was the purpose of the present study.
Establishing instruments for justice may not be as dramatic as patrolling the streets of Baghdad, but it is equally important.
Our established instrument of career choice for medical students is comparable to other existing international instruments such as the Specialty Choice Inventory Sci45 [ 37], for career guidance for specialty or the questionnaire from Wright et al. [ 38].
