In a newspaper article published just before the first anniversary of 9/11, Franklin wrote, "It is crucial to recognize that war and war measures are fundamentally dysfunctional instruments of problem-solving.
Several studies have tried to develop screening instruments of problems linked with the discharge process in patients hospitalized for acute medical conditions [ 4- 8].
It was rather embedded in an over-all molecularization of biology driven by the application of newly developed physical and chemical methods and instruments to problems of biology, including those of genetics.
As such, our study provides the basis for the development of a screening instrument for problem behavior.
The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) and the teacher's report form (TRF) are screening instruments of child behavior problems, designed for parents and teachers respectively.
Other elements of program interactivity included in the BREATH intervention are assessments or tests to be used by the patient as a screening instrument of potential problems.
The SDQ is a relatively short, user-friendly screening instrument of psychosocial problems for children, and worded more positively compared to other common questionnaires.
The instrument included a set of problem scenarios – difficult policy situations that were derived during a full-day discussion of potentially problematic issues by a set of project participants with diverse expertise.
The search was restricted to articles published from January 1990 to August 2011, consistent with the development of the first standardised and validated assessment instrument for the identification of problem gambling in clinical settings (Lesieur and Blume, 1987).
The results obtained in this and other studies cannot be accounted for by the populations sampled, by selection bias, or by the instrument used to quantify symptoms of problem gambling.
The purpose of this exploratory study is to pilot a biopsychosocial instrument called the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP) on a cohort of landmine/Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) victims with lower limb disability versus a cohort of persons with similar disability due to other trauma or medical causes.
