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Paola Rucci - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a multidimensional Spectrum approach to post traumatic stress disorder comparison between the structured clinical interview for trauma and Loss Spectrum sci tals and the self report instrument tals sr
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2009Co-Authors: Liliana Dellosso, Claudia Carmassi, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Jean Endicott, Ciro Conversano, Katherine M Shear, S Calugi, Andrea FagioliniAbstract:Dimensional approaches to psychiatric disorders have shown an increased relevance in the ongoing debate for the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. In line with previously validated instruments for the assessment of different mood, anxiety, eating and psychotic spectra, we tested the validity and reliability of a newly developed Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS). The instrument is based on a multidimensional approach to post-traumatic stress Spectrum that includes a range of threatening or frightening experiences, as well as a variety of potentially significant Losses, to which an individual can be exposed. Furthermore, it explores the Spectrum of the peritraumatic reactions and post-traumatic symptoms that may ensue from either type of life events, targeting soft signs and subthreshold conditions, as well as temperamental and personality traits that may constitute risk factors for the development of the disorder. The aim of the present study is to describe the reliability of the self-report version of the SCI-TALS: the TALS-SR. Thirty patients with PTSD and thirty healthy control subjects were assessed with the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Half of the patients and controls received the TALS-SR first and the SCI-TALS after 15 days; for the other half of the sample, the order of administration was reversed. Agreement between the self-report and the interview formats was substantial. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.934 to 0.994, always exceeding the threshold of 0.90. Our findings provide substantial support for the reliability of the TALS-SR questionnaire.
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Validity and reliability of the Structured Clinical Interview for the Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS).
Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH, 2008Co-Authors: Liliana Dell'osso, Claudia Carmassi, M. Katherine Shear, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Ellen Frank, Jean Endicott, Liliana Lorettu, A. Carlo Altamura, Bernardo CarpinielloAbstract:DSM-IV identifies three stress response disorders (acute stress Disorder (ASD), post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD) and adjustment disorders (AD)) that derive from specific life events. An additional condition of complicated grief (CG), well described in the literature, is triggered by bereavement. This paper reports on the reliability and validity of the Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS) developed to assess the Spectrum of stress response. The instrument is based on a Spectrum model that emphasizes soft signs, low-grade symptoms, subthreshold syndromes, as well as temperamental and personality traits comprising clinical and subsyndromal manifestations. Study participants, enrolled at 6 Italian Departments of Psychiatry located at six sites, included consecutive patients with PTSD, 44 with CG and a comparative group of 48 unselected controls. We showed good reliability and validity of the SCI-TALS. Domain scores were significantly higher in participants with PTSD or CG compared to controls. There were high correlations between specific SCI-TALS domains and corresponding scores on established measures of similar constructs. Participants endorsing grief and Loss events reported similar scores on all instruments, except those with CG who scored significantly higher on the domain of grief reactions. These findings provide strong support for the internal consistency, the discriminant validity and the reliability of the SCI-TALS. These results also support the existence of a specific grief-related condition and the proposal that different forms of stress response have similar manifestations.
Avril V. Somlyo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Thickness determination of biological thin sections by multiple-least-squares fitting of the carbon K-edge in the electron energy-Loss Spectrum.
Ultramicroscopy, 1993Co-Authors: Yun-yu Wang, Ruoya Ho, Z Shao, Avril V. SomlyoAbstract:Abstract We show that the local thickness of biological thin sections can be measured by fitting the electron energy-Loss Spectrum of the plurally scattered carbon K-edge, and that such measurements are consistent with the results obtained by a conventional method based on the relationship t / λ α In( I t / I 0 ). The new method allows the simultaneous measurement and/or mapping of both local thickness and core-level excitations (e.g. Ca L-edge) in this energy range (280–400 eV) without requiring the measurement of the zero-Loss and the valence/plasmon excitations.
Hiroki Kurata - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Optical guided modes coupled with Čerenkov radiation excited in Si slab using angular-resolved electron energy-Loss Spectrum
Journal of Applied Physics, 2013Co-Authors: Hikaru Saito, C. H. Chen, Hiroki KurataAbstract:Retardation effects in the valence electron energy-Loss Spectrum (EELS) of a Si slab are analyzed by angular-resolved EELS. The dispersion curves of the valence spectra excited in a slab are directly observed from a specimen area with several different thicknesses and are interpreted by performing a calculation of the dispersion relation using Kroger's formula. The dispersion curves observed below about 3 eV are attributed to guided modes coupled with Cerenkov radiation (CR). The coupling between guided modes and CR is found to be dependent on the sample thickness (t). For the sample with t > 150 nm, the intensity of the guided modes increased linearly with thickness, revealing the coupling with CR. For t
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optical guided modes coupled with cerenkov radiation excited in si slab using angular resolved electron energy Loss Spectrum
Journal of Applied Physics, 2013Co-Authors: Hikaru Saito, C. H. Chen, Hiroki KurataAbstract:Retardation effects in the valence electron energy-Loss Spectrum (EELS) of a Si slab are analyzed by angular-resolved EELS. The dispersion curves of the valence spectra excited in a slab are directly observed from a specimen area with several different thicknesses and are interpreted by performing a calculation of the dispersion relation using Kroger's formula. The dispersion curves observed below about 3 eV are attributed to guided modes coupled with Cerenkov radiation (CR). The coupling between guided modes and CR is found to be dependent on the sample thickness (t). For the sample with t > 150 nm, the intensity of the guided modes increased linearly with thickness, revealing the coupling with CR. For t < 150 nm, however, the intensity of the guided modes rapidly decreased due to a diminished coupling with CR, resulting from the thickness-dependent dispersion curves of the guided modes.
Claudia Carmassi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE) and Trauma and Loss Spectrum (TALS) 12 months after an earthquake in Italy
Official Journal of the Italian Society of Psychopathology, 2013Co-Authors: Alessandro Rossi, Claudia Carmassi, Enrico Daneluzzo, Paolo Stratta, Ilaria Riccardi, A Marino, Di Ubaldo, G Di Emidio, Sara Patriarca, Gabriele MassimettiAbstract:Methods Assessments included the Trauma and Loss Spectrum Self-Report and Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE). Significant associations were seen between trauma-related measures and subclinical symptoms of psychosis and depression scores. Results Trauma related measures are associated with a weak increase in the subclinical positive and negative dimensions of psychosis, and a modest increase in the subclinical depressive dimension.
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a multidimensional Spectrum approach to post traumatic stress disorder comparison between the structured clinical interview for trauma and Loss Spectrum sci tals and the self report instrument tals sr
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2009Co-Authors: Liliana Dellosso, Claudia Carmassi, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Jean Endicott, Ciro Conversano, Katherine M Shear, S Calugi, Andrea FagioliniAbstract:Dimensional approaches to psychiatric disorders have shown an increased relevance in the ongoing debate for the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. In line with previously validated instruments for the assessment of different mood, anxiety, eating and psychotic spectra, we tested the validity and reliability of a newly developed Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS). The instrument is based on a multidimensional approach to post-traumatic stress Spectrum that includes a range of threatening or frightening experiences, as well as a variety of potentially significant Losses, to which an individual can be exposed. Furthermore, it explores the Spectrum of the peritraumatic reactions and post-traumatic symptoms that may ensue from either type of life events, targeting soft signs and subthreshold conditions, as well as temperamental and personality traits that may constitute risk factors for the development of the disorder. The aim of the present study is to describe the reliability of the self-report version of the SCI-TALS: the TALS-SR. Thirty patients with PTSD and thirty healthy control subjects were assessed with the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Half of the patients and controls received the TALS-SR first and the SCI-TALS after 15 days; for the other half of the sample, the order of administration was reversed. Agreement between the self-report and the interview formats was substantial. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.934 to 0.994, always exceeding the threshold of 0.90. Our findings provide substantial support for the reliability of the TALS-SR questionnaire.
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Validity and reliability of the Structured Clinical Interview for the Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS).
Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH, 2008Co-Authors: Liliana Dell'osso, Claudia Carmassi, M. Katherine Shear, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Ellen Frank, Jean Endicott, Liliana Lorettu, A. Carlo Altamura, Bernardo CarpinielloAbstract:DSM-IV identifies three stress response disorders (acute stress Disorder (ASD), post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD) and adjustment disorders (AD)) that derive from specific life events. An additional condition of complicated grief (CG), well described in the literature, is triggered by bereavement. This paper reports on the reliability and validity of the Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS) developed to assess the Spectrum of stress response. The instrument is based on a Spectrum model that emphasizes soft signs, low-grade symptoms, subthreshold syndromes, as well as temperamental and personality traits comprising clinical and subsyndromal manifestations. Study participants, enrolled at 6 Italian Departments of Psychiatry located at six sites, included consecutive patients with PTSD, 44 with CG and a comparative group of 48 unselected controls. We showed good reliability and validity of the SCI-TALS. Domain scores were significantly higher in participants with PTSD or CG compared to controls. There were high correlations between specific SCI-TALS domains and corresponding scores on established measures of similar constructs. Participants endorsing grief and Loss events reported similar scores on all instruments, except those with CG who scored significantly higher on the domain of grief reactions. These findings provide strong support for the internal consistency, the discriminant validity and the reliability of the SCI-TALS. These results also support the existence of a specific grief-related condition and the proposal that different forms of stress response have similar manifestations.
Jack D. Maser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a multidimensional Spectrum approach to post traumatic stress disorder comparison between the structured clinical interview for trauma and Loss Spectrum sci tals and the self report instrument tals sr
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2009Co-Authors: Liliana Dellosso, Claudia Carmassi, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Jean Endicott, Ciro Conversano, Katherine M Shear, S Calugi, Andrea FagioliniAbstract:Dimensional approaches to psychiatric disorders have shown an increased relevance in the ongoing debate for the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. In line with previously validated instruments for the assessment of different mood, anxiety, eating and psychotic spectra, we tested the validity and reliability of a newly developed Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS). The instrument is based on a multidimensional approach to post-traumatic stress Spectrum that includes a range of threatening or frightening experiences, as well as a variety of potentially significant Losses, to which an individual can be exposed. Furthermore, it explores the Spectrum of the peritraumatic reactions and post-traumatic symptoms that may ensue from either type of life events, targeting soft signs and subthreshold conditions, as well as temperamental and personality traits that may constitute risk factors for the development of the disorder. The aim of the present study is to describe the reliability of the self-report version of the SCI-TALS: the TALS-SR. Thirty patients with PTSD and thirty healthy control subjects were assessed with the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Half of the patients and controls received the TALS-SR first and the SCI-TALS after 15 days; for the other half of the sample, the order of administration was reversed. Agreement between the self-report and the interview formats was substantial. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.934 to 0.994, always exceeding the threshold of 0.90. Our findings provide substantial support for the reliability of the TALS-SR questionnaire.
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Validity and reliability of the Structured Clinical Interview for the Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS).
Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH, 2008Co-Authors: Liliana Dell'osso, Claudia Carmassi, M. Katherine Shear, Paola Rucci, Jack D. Maser, Ellen Frank, Jean Endicott, Liliana Lorettu, A. Carlo Altamura, Bernardo CarpinielloAbstract:DSM-IV identifies three stress response disorders (acute stress Disorder (ASD), post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD) and adjustment disorders (AD)) that derive from specific life events. An additional condition of complicated grief (CG), well described in the literature, is triggered by bereavement. This paper reports on the reliability and validity of the Structured Clinical Interview for Trauma and Loss Spectrum (SCI-TALS) developed to assess the Spectrum of stress response. The instrument is based on a Spectrum model that emphasizes soft signs, low-grade symptoms, subthreshold syndromes, as well as temperamental and personality traits comprising clinical and subsyndromal manifestations. Study participants, enrolled at 6 Italian Departments of Psychiatry located at six sites, included consecutive patients with PTSD, 44 with CG and a comparative group of 48 unselected controls. We showed good reliability and validity of the SCI-TALS. Domain scores were significantly higher in participants with PTSD or CG compared to controls. There were high correlations between specific SCI-TALS domains and corresponding scores on established measures of similar constructs. Participants endorsing grief and Loss events reported similar scores on all instruments, except those with CG who scored significantly higher on the domain of grief reactions. These findings provide strong support for the internal consistency, the discriminant validity and the reliability of the SCI-TALS. These results also support the existence of a specific grief-related condition and the proposal that different forms of stress response have similar manifestations.
