Sentence examples for increasing levels of severity from inspiring English sources

This validated instrument includes 10 descriptive questions measuring emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at increasing levels of severity, i.e. mild, moderate and severe (Fig.  1) [ 30].

Both aggressive and submissive behaviors were categorized in increasing levels of severity.

We hypothesized that increasing levels of severity of the ordinally scaled musculoskeletal limitations items would be associated with worsening functional status, as measured by the IADL scale.

The BDI-II contains 21 specific symptoms of depression with answer options that consist of four increasing levels of severity, ranging from zero to three.

When stratified by self-reported OA severity after adjusting for age and gender, lost productivity costs were significantly higher with increasing levels of severity.

These categories represent increasingly specific subgroups of all injurious falls, which can also be considered to correspond to increasing levels of severity (except for those resulting in fracture, which is simply a specific type of serious injury).

The co-occurrence increased with the increasing level of severity of sexual violence (Table  2).

Some effects appear to have discrete outcomes, without an underlying, gradually increasing level of severity.

An increasing level of severity of sexual violence was also associated with an increasing probability of reporting ≥ 8 symptoms (Table  4).

An increasing level of severity of sexual violence was associated with an increasing probability of suffering for a longer period of time for the majority of the physical symptoms (Table  3).

The CAST instrument differs from other caries assessment instruments by the fact that the codes are ordered in increasing level of severity of the effects of the caries process.