METHOD FOR MULTIPLE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS OF JUVENILE ANXIETY Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine, psychiatry, neurology, medicinal psychology.

SUBSTANCE: a questionnaire should be given for a patient to conduct evaluation in points. Moreover, the questionnaire includes 10 scales: 1 - general anxiety, 2 - anxiety in relations with persons of the same age, 3 - anxiety associated with how surrounding people evaluate a patient; 4 - anxiety associated with relations with teachers, 5 - anxiety in relations with parents, 6 - anxiety associated with success in education, 7 - anxiety originated in situations of a patient's self-expression, 8 - anxiety originated in situations of checking a patient's knowledge level, 9 - anxiety-induced decreased psychical activity, 10 - increased autonomic reactivity. Each of these 10 scales depicts one out of four psychological parameters: the scales 1, 3 and 7 - the evaluation of anxiety level directly referring to a patient's personal demands, the scales 9 and 10 - the evaluation of a patient's peculiarities of psycho-physiological and psycho-autonomic reaction in stress situations, the scales 2,4 and 5 - the evaluation of the role in development of a patient's anxiety reactions and states, the peculiarities of a patient's social contacts, the scales 6 and 8 - the evaluation of the role in the development of a patient's anxiety reactions and states in situations associated with school education. Also, each scale contains 10 questions that reflect psychological specificity of each of them. For each sub-sample it is necessary to transform the values of primary evaluations by all the scales into z-evaluations by the following formula: , where X - primary evaluation by test, - an average value for normal group, SD - standard deviation against an average value for normal group. At z-evaluations ranged -2.5 up to -1 z-points one should diagnose no anxiety; from -1 up to +1 z-points - normal level; from +1 up to +2 z-points - increased level of anxiety and from +2 up to +3 z-points - the extreme degree of anxiety should be stated upon. The innovation improved the significance of diagnostics due to the most informative values of emotional-behavioral disorders of the anxiety register in the questionnaire given for such patients.

EFFECT: higher accuracy and efficiency of diagnostics.

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