The Mark et al. [13] scale also has four parts rated as excellent/good/fair/poor based on the following items: loss of motion, loss of the carrying angle and pain/neurovascular lesion.
Administration involves initially asking two items (loss of interest; feeling upset, distressed or depressed).
Two other items (loss of appetite, weight loss) which produced a separate factor [ 24] were also excluded.
In the Group A, the greater improvement between T0 and T1 has been reported on PSM items loss of control, irritability, psycho-physiological sensations, confusion, anxiety, depression, physical pain, hyperactivity and agitation (table 1 and figure 1, 2).
The seventh item, loss of weight, was not included in the symptom clusters.
One item "loss of libido" was removed from the scale as it was considered in some countries to be an inappropriate question for an adolescent population.
The factors are anxiety and depression (4 items), social dysfunction (6 items), and loss of confidence (2 items).
These included the BDI Anhedonia scale (items #4 – loss of pleasure, item #12 – loss of interest, item # 15 loss of energy and item #21 – loss of sex drive) and the BDI Melancholy scale (item (#4 – loss of pleasure, item #5 – presence of guilt, item # 11 – irritability, item #12 – loss of energy, item #16b – early waking and item #21 – loss of sex drive).
Detail items like loss of income for primary wage earners in the household and anything else that could get you more financial aid.
In our previous study of postnatal demoralisation in a hospital mother-baby unit [ 12], we extracted four factors: a factor which was mainly a combination of the dysphoria and disheartenment items (items 11,16,15,21,10,18,5,9,22); helplessness (items 24, 23,7,4,8,6); loss of meaning (items 14,20,2,13,3); and sense of failure (items 17,19,1,12).
The anhedonia items on the BDI-II (Item 4: loss of pleasure; Item 12: loss of interest) were summed as in Davidson et al. (2010).
