Finally, 5 classes with different patterns of functioning and increasing levels of functional dependency were identified, these were all clinically understandable from the medical point of view.
Gender patterning of functioning and impairment was evident and there were differences of emphasis between the three categories of respondents (people with SMD, caregivers and professionals).
Personality functioning was considered in different ways by 46% (12/26) of the authors, and most of these authors showed that some personality traits, dimensions or patterns of functioning play an important role in dropout.
In conclusion, the aim of the study is to obtain more insight into functioning and the different patterns of functioning and QoL in older adults with joint pain and comorbidity.
Although these studies have investigated relevant domains of mental health care for children and adolescents, none of them yielded quantitative data or provided detailed information on facility characteristics, staffing and patterns of functioning.
Gorilla gestures are multi-functional, each typically used for several overlapping purposes, but the pattern of functions is characteristic of the individual gesture and not markedly different at different sites, for both species-typical and potentially ritualized gestures.
Quality function deployment (QFD) is combined with a mapping pattern of "function → principle → structure" to extract product characteristics from customer demands.
Compared to patients with schizophrenia, bipolar patients (including those in our study) seem to be less severely impaired in cognitive performance, and they reveal a similar pattern of functions affected (see Daban et al. [2006] and Trivedi et al. [2007]).
Addiction is more than a series of individual choices; it is a sustained pattern of brain functioning.
However, the positive trends of PS+PA supplementation on change patterns of functioning and self-reported general condition are encouraging.
