External Validation of a Single-Item Scale to Measure Motivation to Stop Smoking: Findings from a Representative Population Survey (DEBRA Study)Abstract.Aims: The Motivation to Stop Scale (MTSS) is a single-item ...
Emotions“Affective and Social Neuroscience” is a focus in recent research on emotions which has several implications for psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy. Adequate research designs have to be established to serve as “paradigms” within studies ...
The Risk Potential of Various Types of Gambling: Results of a Delphi Study and Empirical Validation of Assessment CriteriaAims: The study aims at generating and validating assessment criteria based on different characteristics of gambling types, in order ...
Weight phobia in patients with Anorexia nervosa – development of a questionnaireAnxiety plays a comprehensive role in the psychopathology of anorexic patients and the long-term course of the disorder. Despite the importance of the major symptom: weight ...
Validity of cannabis-related diagnoses in addiction counselling centres<span class="fett">Background:</span> Making diagnoses in outpatient counselling centres has been questioned repeatedly. For this reason, the validity of cannabis-related diagnoses (...
Development of a Self-assessment Scale for the Alcohol Withdrawal
Syndrome (ESA, Essen Self-Assessment-Alcohol Withdrawal)Aims: So far, for the evaluation of the alcohol withdrawal treatment, subjective complaints of patients during acute alcohol ...