Middle schools students are students coursing between the fourth or fifth year of schooling up to the eighth or ninth year, although this may vary.
adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school
person who has served in a military force, especially during a war.
First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 1995
structured clinical interview for the DSM-II
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-II Axis II Disorder (SCID-II) is a diagnostic exam used to determine DSM-II Axis II disorders (personality disorders).
An activity intended to do or accomplish something. Routinely used as in "number of tries to complete a procedure".
An active process; excludes processes and mechanisms which fulfill biological functions.
Male homosexual state Male homosexuality Male homosexual (finding)
Indicates a person who has never been married or whose marriages have been annulled.
A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop within 3 months of a stressor and do not persist for more than an additional 6 months after the stressor is no longer present.
SLEEP DISTURBANCES Sleep Disturbance DISTURBANCES, SLEEP parasomnia
A change from the patient's baseline sleeping pattern, either an increase or a decrease in the number of hours slept. This can also refer to alterations in the stages of sleep.
Denotes a person with African ancestral origins who self identifies, or is identified, as African. The concept does not refer to those of other ancestry, for example, European and South Asian. In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.
Clinical Finding DESC Signs or Symptoms CLINICAL SIGNS
Objective evidence of disease perceptible to the examining practitioner (sign) and subjective evidence of disease perceived by the patient (symptom).
The Department of the Army (DA) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
GSIS a new multidimensional measure of suicide ideation and related factors in older adults.
Indicates a person whose marriage has been legally dissolved and has not remarried.
A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by anxious feelings or fear often accompanied by physical symptoms associated with anxiety.
The executive part of the Department of the Navy at the seat of government; the headquarters, US Marine Corps; the entire operating forces of the United States Navy and of the US Marine Corps, including the Reserve Components of such forces; all field activities, headquarters, forces, bases, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the Navy; and the US Coast Guard when operating as a part of the Navy pursuant to law.
paykel scale is used to evaluate stressful life events
Neuroscience Information Framework Standard Ontology
A location known by a local name (e.g., neighborhood, place, or district).
Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
The Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview is a short structured clinical interview which enables researchers to make diagnoses of psychiatric disorders according to DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) or ICD-10. The administration time of the interview is approximately 15 minutes and was designed for epidemiological studies and multicenter clinical trials.
mini international neuropsychiatric interview
A term that helps define and render another concept unique.
Is a Worker not reporting any occupation. Is a person in the educational environment.
a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Americas, or who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
(ISI, Bastein, Vallieres, & Morin, 2001)
is a ISI index that measures the difficulty staying asleep.
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.
is a person that participates in a course of study at a secondary learning institution.
A group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships. (MSH); A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition maintained from generation to generation, a common history and origin and a sense of identification with the group; members of the group have distinctive features in their way of life, shared experiences and often a common genetic heritage; these features may be reflected in their experience of health and disease. (NCI); Ethnicity - an arbitrary classification of the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a complex of cultural, biological, geographical and other factors such as linguistic, dietary and religion traditions; ancestry, background, allegiance, or association; and physical characteristics traditionally associated with race. Increasingly the concept is used synonymously with race but this use trend has a pragmatic basis rather than scientific. (NCI); The concept of ethnic origin is an attempt to classify people, not according to their current ethnicity, but according to where their ancestors came from. Ethnic origin has become a popular classification in statistics, where the concept of race has been largely discarded. (from Wikipedia) (NCI); a group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships. (CSP)
Grant and Berg, 1948; Heaton et al., 1993
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a neuropsychological test of "set-shifting", i.e. the ability to display flexibility in the face of changing schedules of reinforcement.
A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep and/or remaining asleep.
Any one of several evaluation/assessment tools used to ascertain a patient's complaints with regard to his or her specific condition or diagnosis.
Clinical, laboratory or molecular evidence, or absence of evidence of disease.
Depression Symptom Index-Suicidality Subscale designed for the assessment of suicidal impulses.
Maritally Unattached Person, Single Persons, Single Single Persons Never Married Unmarried
Sexual orientation disturbance Gender identity disorder (disorder) Gender identity disorder, NOS Sexual orientation disturbance, NOS
Behavioral health measure is a 20-item self-report questionnaire that uses Likert rating scales to the three domains of mental health treatment: wellbeing, psychological symptoms, and life functioning. Each item has a 5-point scale ranging from 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating better health.
Medical outcomes study short form general health survey (assessment scale)
medical outcomes study short form general health survey
A distinguishing quality or prominent aspect of a person, object, action, process, or substance.
is a ISI index that measures the difficulty falling asleep.
is a ISI index that measures problems associated with early morning awakenings.
The ratio of the odds of an event occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group, or to a sample-based estimate of that ratio.
Excitement of psychotic proportions manifested by mental and physical hyperactivity, disorganisation of behaviour and elevation of mood.
A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated.
Weathers, Litz, Herman, Huska, & Keane, 1993
The PCL-M is a 17-item self-report inventory that assesses the severity of each PTSD symptom according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) for three major criteria: reexperiencing symptoms, emotional numbing and avoidance, and hypervigilance.
A disorder characterized by behavioral and/or psychological abnormalities, often accompanied by physical symptoms. The symptoms may cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social and occupational areas of functioning. Representative examples include anxiety disorders, cognitive disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia.
Psychiatric Disease Mental Illness PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS Mental Dysfunction
impulsive behavior scale was designed to measure impulsivity across dimensions of the Five Factor Model of personality.
Any aspect of an individual's life, behavior, an environmental exposure, or an inborn or inherited characteristic that increases the likelihood of a disease, condition or injury.
Female homosexual state Lesbianism Lesbian Female homosexuality Female homosexual (finding)
A mental disorder characterized by personality change, impaired functioning, and loss of touch with reality. It may be a manifestation of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or brain tumor.
The DTT is a behavioral index of distress tolerance during which participants complete an alternative form of the Wisconsin Card Sort Test.
Clinical evidence of disease resulting from mental and/or behavioral dysfunction.
mental and behavioral signs and symptoms
Grief that is complicated by ambivalent feelings toward the friend or relative who has died.
the quality or state of being burdensome.
The state of feeling sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or being separated from others.
Sudden extreme anxiety or fear that may cause irrational thoughts or actions. Panic may include rapid heart rate, flushing (a hot, red face), sweating, and trouble breathing.
Read Codes, Clinical Terms Version 3 (CTV3)
Methods Method Technical Methods, Other Techniques Methods and Techniques
A practiced and regimented skill or series of actions.
The use of alcoholic beverages to excess, either on individual occasions ("binge drinking") or as a regular practice.
homosexuality gay (sexual orientation) lesbian
sexual attraction or relationship between members of the same sex.
Depression Symptom Index-Suicidality Subscale designed for the assessment of suicidal plans.
schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
A category of psychiatric disorders characterized by the presence of psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations or negative symptoms such as affective flattening.
Objective evidence of disease perceptible to the examining healthcare provider.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is the Secretary and Deputy Secretary's (mainly) civilian staff.
A term used in the United States to categorize a population group comprised of persons having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Includes population subgroups (e.g., Kenyan, Nigerian, Haitian). The concept refers also to individuals who classify themselves as described.
Afro American Black Populations BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN Black
Defense Department USDOD DOD DoD the Pentagon
Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.
A diverse category of psychiatric disorders characterized by behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture; this pattern of deviation is pervasive and inflexible and is stable over time. The behavioral pattern negatively interferes with relationships and work.
Self-inflicted harm in an attempt to end one's own life.
A formal group of people that exists to further a particular profession.
ORG Organizational Other Agency or Organization Organization Outside Bodies
possessing both homosexual and heterosexual preferences; or true hermaphroditism, having gonads of both sexes.
How long something has existed; elapsed time since birth.
The ACSS assesses fearlessness about lethal self-injury as well as self-perceived ability to tolerate the pain involved in self-injury (e.g., “I can tolerate more pain than most people” and “The pain involved in dying frightens me” [reversed]).
A person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment, or who is registered with medical professional or institution with the purpose to receive medical care when necessary.
A condition that is relevant to human neoplasms and non-neoplastic disorders. This includes observations, test results, history and other concepts relevant to the characterization of human pathologic conditions.
Hispanic Spanish Origin Hispanic Populations Latino Population Hispanics or Latinos
A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. An arbitrary ethnic classification.
A person who belongs to the sex that normally produces ova. The term is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, or cultural gender role distinctions, or both.
A characteristic of an organism that contributes to the diagnosis or treatment of a disease or to the prediction of clinical outcomes.
A term that helps define and render a concept unique.
Any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. The term is often used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function.
Disorders Diseases and Disorders Diseases condition Disorder Disease
Identity problem Identity disorder (disorder)
The population from which study subjects are recruited.
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is one of the three Military Departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator.
Subjective evidence of disease perceived by the patient.
A disorder characterized by a loss of appetite.
Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes
PHQ-9, which is a nine-item measure of depression severity corresponding to the nine criteria upon which is based on the diagnosis of DSM-IV depressive disorders. Items are scored from ‘0’ (not at all) to ‘3’ (nearly every day).
A test perfomed to identify a disease or make a prediction of the course of the disease.
Indicates a person who is no longer married because of the death of his/her spouse and has not remarried.
The probability that an event will occur. It encompasses a variety of measures of the probability of a generally unfavorable outcome.MSH2001
Sexual Preference Sex Orientation transsexualism asexual cross dresser cross dressing gender preference transsexual transgender
direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes; involves feelings, and sense of identity.
A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month. There are various forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on the time of onset and the duration of these stress symptoms. In the acute form, the duration of the symptoms is between 1 to 3 months. In the chronic form, symptoms last more than 3 months. With delayed onset, symptoms develop more than 6 months after the traumatic event.
ACUTE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS Acute Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Acute Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder CHRONIC POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder DELAYED ONSET POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS Delayed Onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Delayed Onset Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Neuroses, Post Traumatic Neuroses, Post-Traumatic Neuroses, Posttraumatic POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DIS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS PTSD PTSD - Post-traumatic stress disorder Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Neuroses Post-Traumatic Neurosis Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Post-traumatic stress syndrome Posttraumatic Neuroses Posttraumatic stress disorder Posttraumatic stress disorder (disorder) Posttraumatic stress disorder, NOS STRESS DIS POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS POSTTRAUMATIC Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Posttraumatic disorder, post-traumatic stress post-traumatic stress disease traumatic neurosis
A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.
Manic-Depression Manic Depressive Disorder
ISI which has a 7-item index of insomnia severity using a 5-point scale that measures perceived severity of problems with sleep onset, sleep maintenance, and early morning awakenings; dissatisfaction with current sleep patterns; extent of interference with daily functioning; noticeable impairment in functioning; and extent of worry and anxiety associated with sleep patterns.
Any one of several evaluation/assessment tools used to ascertain a patient's condition or diagnosis.
That aspect of consciousness devoted to affect or feeling; a strong feeling, aroused mental state, or intense state of drive or unrest directed toward a definite object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.
The assemblage of properties that distinguish people on the basis of the societal roles expected for the two sexes.
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success.
Global Mental Health (GMH) scale is calculated by taking the average score of all 20 items to provide an index of overall health.
united states department of veterans affairs
VA is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors. The benefits provided include disability compensation, pension, education, home loans, life insurance, vocational rehabilitation, survivors’ benefits, medical benefits and burial benefits. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
The normal response to a major loss, such as the death of a loved one. Grief may also be felt by a person with a serious, long-term illness or with a terminal illness. It may include feelings of great sadness, anger, guilt, and despair. Physical problems, such as not being able to sleep and changes in appetite, may also be part of grief.NCI-GLOSS
A broad group of psychological disorders with abnormal eating behaviors leading to physiological effects from overeating or insufficient food intake.
Depression Symptom Index-Suicidality Subscale designed for the assessment of suicidal thoughts.
A person who belongs to the sex that normally produces sperm. The term is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both.
The BSSI is a 21 item self report inventory designed for the assessment of suicide intention. A score of 0–2 is assigned for each item and total scores for the BSSI range from 0 to 42 where an increase in score represents a higher level of suicidal ideation and possible intent.
Beck scale for suicide ideation (assessment scale) BSSI
Transsexualism (disorder) Transsexualism, NOS
A patient who comes to a healthcare facility for diagnosis or treatment but is not admitted for an overnight stay.
The PPE is a 26-item self-report measure that assesses the number of times participants have experienced a range of painful and/or provocative experiences throughout their lifetime (e.g., Have you participated in contact sports? Have you been a victim of physical abuse?).
relative frequency distribution relative frequency table.
A frequency distribution in which the individual class frequencies are expressed as a percentage of the total frequency equated to 100.
The INQ is a 25-item self-report questionnaire speciﬁcally designed to assess the two components of suicide desire proposed by the IPTS: thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness.
Indicates a person currently joined in a legally binding matrimonial union. Classify common law marriage as married. Includes married couples living together and not living together.
any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma.
The use of a drug for a reason other than which it was intended or in a manner or in quantities other than directed.
adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_duty
Active duty soldier refers to a full-time occupation as part of a military force.
Social context (social concept) Social context, NOS
thwarted belongingness is a psychologically-painful mental state that results when the fundamental need for connectedness.
act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
sexual attraction or relationship between members of the opposite sex.
behavior in which one has a tendency to do harm to oneself, either as a direct or indirect result of their actions; frequently marked by impulse, but also includes chronic, injurious behaviors.
self injurious behavior self mutilating behavior
The distinguishing qualities or prominent aspects of an individual person.
Concerning or related to monetary conditions.
Medical states or medical conditions are used to describe a patient's condition in a hospital. These terms are most commonly used by the news media and are rarely used by doctors, who in their daily business prefer to deal with medical problems in greater detail.
The state of a subject's mental or physical condition.
The actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli.
Feelings of being unimportant or useless.
Belongingness is the human emotional need to be an accepted member of a group.
Denotes person with European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral origin who identifies, or is identified, as White.
Occidental Caucasoid Caucasians Whites Caucasian
is a Beck scale for suicide ideation designed for the assessment the wish to die.
A method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic.
Recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are severe enough to be time consuming (i.e., they take more than 1 hour a day) or cause marked distress or significant impairment (DSM-IV).
Elementary school students are students from kindergarten through either grade 5 or grade 6, depending on the region and time in history.
adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education_in_the_United_States
is a Beck scale for suicide ideation designed for the assessment the wish to live.
percentage distribution by disease, disorder or finding
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma.
A group of individuals united by a common factor (e.g., geographic location, ethnicity, disease, age, gender)
A melancholy feeling of sadness and despair.
A twenty-one question survey completed by a patient, with each answer scored on a scale of 0 to 3, designed to measure presence of depression.
Maladaptive pattern of drug or alcohol use that may lead to social, occupational, psychological, or physical problems.
Area Region Geographic Location Geographic Region
Any demarcated area of the Earth; may be determined by both natural and human boundaries.
the biological response to noxious, demanding, or unpleasant stimuli or conditions; do not confuse stress with STRESSOR, which is the stimulus.CSP2003 A pathological process resulting from the reaction of the body to external forces and abnormal conditions that tend to disturb the organism's homeostasis.MSH2003_2003_05_12 The response of the body to physical, mental, or emotional pressure. This may make a person feel frustrated, angry, or anxious, and may cause unhealthy chemical changes in the body. Untreated, long-term stress may lead to many types of mental and physical health problems.NCI-GLOSS
Indicates a person living apart from his/her spouse by legal arrangement.
Mavandadi, Rook, Newsom and Oslin, 2012
positive and negative social exchanges scale
measures the perceived frequency of positive and negative social exchanges.
Disenfranchised grief is a term describing grief that is not acknowledged by society.
Examples of events leading to disenfranchised grief are the loss of a pet, an aborted/miscarried pregnancy, a mother's loss or surrender of a child to adoption, the death of a celebrity, etc.
Occupations Job Occupation (occupation) Profession Job, NOS Occupation, NOS Profession, NOS
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge-eating over which the individual feels a lack of control; these episodes of binge-eating are followed by recurrent compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, usually self-induced vomiting. In addition, self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body image.
Extreme physical pain or psychological suffering.
A category of psychiatric disorders which have as their most predominant feature a disturbance in mood.
Any specific activity undertaken during the course of a clinical psychology study
A demographic parameter indicating a person's current conjugal status.
A disorder characterized by the presence of persistent and recurrent irrational thoughts (obsessions), resulting in marked anxiety and repetitive excessive behaviors (compulsions) as a way to try to decrease that anxiety.