We interviewed 209 subjects using the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) and a modified version (TICS-m) that includes items sensitive to early dementia (delayed recall) and eliminates other items difficult to verify in survey work.
Logistic regression analysis found items sensitive to history of suicide attempt described ruminative flooding, doom, hopelessness, entrapment and dread.
A limitation of this and many other cognitive functioning scales is the lack of items sensitive to very mild early stage of dementia.
The clinical scale contains five 'current' items sensitive to change including lack of insight, negative attitudes, active symptoms of major mental illness, impulsivity and unresponsiveness to treatment.
At any rate, this assessment showed markedly superior performance for the DISQOL module as compared with WHOQOL-Bref for between-group discrimination, which may suggest that the module is competent to discriminate groups only when items sensitive to people with disabilities are present.
Wine, like any perishable food item, is sensitive to its surroundings.
Then, all the items were sensitive, independent and representative, according to the construction strategy and item selection methods.
A good longitudinal QOL scale for RCT use is one containing items measuring all important aspects of QOL for the population under study and most of these items are sensitive to change that would be expected from the treatments studied.
This was certainly the case in Japan, where Shiseido responded with a small line of preservative-free items "for sensitive skin".
In Japan, Shiseido has responded with a small line of preservative-free items "for sensitive skin," as has Kose, another major Japanese makeup firm.
