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PubMed1998

Comparison of the clientele of an anonymous HIV test centre and persons tested in the general population.

This study compares the clientele of a Swiss anonymous test centre with the general population tested. Information was obtained through similar questionnaires submitted to two samples of HIV-tested people aged from 17 to 45 years: the first administered in the context of a general population telephone survey (n = 245) and the second completed during face-to-face interviews of the clientele of an anonymous test centre (n = 250). The test centre sample has higher proportions of younger and single people. Attenders for anonymous testing were more likely to have acquired a new regular partner during the year preceding the interview (48.0% versus 14.4%). These differences remain when controlling for age and gender. Decision to test comes mostly from the respondent's own initiative, but suggestion from a doctor is more frequent in the general population (23.8% versus 0.8%), whereas suggestion from partner or friends is more frequent in the anonymous centre (44.4% versus 3.0%). The anonymous test centre clientele is not different from the general population tested except for the relational situation and origin of decision for testing. The test centre has become a place where the general population finds a response to a situation-specific need for HIV testing.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Recommendations for the clinical use of the Apperceptive Personality Test.

The Apperceptive Personality Test (APT) is a new technique that combines the traditional story-telling method with a questionnaire about the characters in the story, to be filled out by the person being tested. The resulting information is tabulated, and a variety of scores are generated which yield information about the person's personality. The identified clinical signposts indicated by such scores are summarized in this article, along with two illustrative protocol fragments showing how to usual interpretive method is supplemented by the information from the questionnaire.

Adult↗
PubMed1992

Prediction of MMPI clinical scores from the Apperceptive Personality Test.

Eight independent scores from a new objective/projective personality test, the Apperceptive Personality Test (APT), were validated against eight clinical scores of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). In parallel studies of 150 male and 150 female college volunteers given both tests, weighted combinations of the 8 APT measures significantly predicted MMPI raw scores in 15 of 16 analyses (Ma scores could not be predicted for men). Of 84 predicted zero-order correlations between APT and MMPI measures, 50 (60%) were confirmed, 74% for women and 45% for men; however, the vast majority of these correlations were below .30.

Adult↗
PubMed2000

[Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and assessment of personality test in patients with migraine].

OBJECTIVE: To explore personality test and brainstem auditory potentials (BAEPs) in patients with migraine. METHODS: BAEPs and eysenck personality scale were recorded in 30 patients with migraine. RESULTS: The abnormal rate of BAEPs was 53%. The latency of individual wave I, III and V were prolonged, so did the interval of the wave III and wave V. The results of personality test showed that 3 patients(10%) manifested introvert personality, 12 patients (40%) extravert personality, and 17 patients (56%) the intermediate personality. CONCLUSION: It is indicated that migraine may be related to the disturbance of brainstem disfunction and personality of patients.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

PLS model building: a multivariate approach to personality test data.

The aim of this study was to demonstrate how personality test data can be plotted with a multivariate method known as Partial Least Squares of Latent Structures (PLS). The basic methodology behind PLS modeling is presented and the example demonstrates how a PLS model of personality test data can be used for diagnostic prediction. Principles for validating the models are also presented. The conclusion is that PLS modeling appears to be a powerful method for extracting clinically relevant information from complex personality test data matrixes. It could be used as a complement to more hard modeling methods in the process of examining a new area of interest.

Humans↗
PubMed2005

Estimates of HIV incidence among persons testing for HIV using the sensitive/less sensitive enzyme immunoassy, New York City, 2001.

BACKGROUND: Estimates of the incidence of HIV infection among persons testing for HIV can be derived by applying a newly available serologic test to the diagnostic specimen of HIV-positive persons. Such estimates would enhance the targeting of HIV prevention resources and provide a sensitive outcome measure for prevention program evaluation. The goal of this investigation was to estimate the incidence of HIV infection among persons testing for HIV in New York City. METHODS: The study population consisted of persons testing for HIV in public settings in New York City during 2001 (n = 114,703). We applied a less sensitive enzyme immunoassay (LS-EIA) (Vironostika, BioMerieux, Durham, NC) to the diagnostic blood specimen of 1022 persons in whom HIV (non-AIDS) had been diagnosed for the first time in 2001. The distribution of transmission risk among HIV-negative persons--men who have sex with men (MSM), injection drug users (IDUs), heterosexuals-from a large telephone health survey was used to generate denominators for transmission risk groups. RESULTS: The 1022 persons tested by the LS-EIA represented 27% of all persons in whom HIV (non-AIDS) had been diagnosed in New York City during 2001. The incidence of HIV was estimated to be 0.29% per year (95% CI: 0.20-0.38), and was significantly higher for men than women (rate ratio 3.6, 95% CI: 2.6-5.1), and HIV incidence increased with age. Male IDU and MSM testers had the highest HIV incidence rates: 2.7% per year (95% CI: 2.3-3.1) and 2.5% per year (95% CI: 2.1-2.8), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Male IDUs and MSM may be good candidates for intensified targeting of HIV prevention resources in New York City.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed2002

Personality testing and profiling for anaesthetic job recruitment: attitudes of anaesthetic specialists/consultants in New Zealand and Scotland.

Specialist/consultant anaesthetists based in New Zealand and Scotland were sent a reply paid postal questionnaire asking about their attitudes to personality testing and personality types in the recruitment process for registrars and specialists. The questionnaire consisted of nine Likert-style questions and 14 visual analogue questions. The overall response rate was 65% (523/808). The responses to all the questions were broadly similar in the two countries. Personality testing was deemed of use in recruiting trainees and specialists, with a slightly greater proportion considering personality traits more important than academic achievement. An overwhelming majority believed the presence of an adverse personality trait would influence an appointment process, but few believed that the personality makeup of anaesthetists influenced the way in which they react to stressful situations. A slight majority considered the interview process a poor predictor of personality. New Zealand anaesthetists rated independence, orderliness, compassion, empathy, reflectiveness and patience higher than did anaesthetists in Scotland. In contrast, anaesthetists in Scotland rated pragmatism, as opposed to perfection, as a more important characteristic than did the New Zealand specialists. Personality assessment, although not effective as the sole tool for candidate selection, may have a role in the process of anaesthetic job recruitment and warrants further investigation.

Anesthesiology↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Influence of medical compression stockings on venolymphatic drainage in phlebologically healthy test persons and patients with chronic venous insufficiency.

The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of medical compression stockings on venolymphatic drainage in phlebologically healthy test persons and patients with chronic venous insufficiency. Using this new method, the outflow of an intradermally injected sodium fluorescein solution can be densitrometrically determined over a period of 60 min. In an evaluation of the method carried out over 5 weeks with 4 test persons, the variation coefficient was 19.3%, indicating a sufficient reproducibility. Concerning the effect of below-knee stockings (ankle pressure 30 mm Hg) on venolymphatic drainage, improvements of around 200 (p < 0.0001) and 250% were recorded for 10 healthy test persons (mean age 29.0 +/- 3.1 years) and 20 patients suffering from chronic venous insufficiency (classes 4 and 5; p < 0.001), respectively. The results lead us to conclude that (i) the method presented here enables a quantification of the venolymphatic drainage and (ii) that therapy with compression stockings, for both healthy test persons and patients suffering from chronic venous insufficiency, leads to a significant improvement of venolymphatic drainage.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Using the Bender-Gestalt test to predict graphomotor dimensions of the Draw-A-Person test.

The investigators examined four correlated aspects of the Bender-Gestalt and the Draw-A-Person tests. Subjects were 41 boys and 14 girls classified as seriously emotionally disturbed or seriously behavior disordered by their school system in southwest Georgia. Each subject's Bender-Gestalt and human figure drawings were placed on a digitizing pad and encoded to provide information relative to the width, height, average point of location on the fourth quadrant abscissa and ordinate of each drawing. The widths of Bender Figures 2 and 8 correlated significantly with the widths of human drawings; the heights of Figures A, 5, and 7 were significantly correlated with the heights of the human drawings. Bender Figure 1 was significantly correlated with average points of location on the abscissa of human figure drawings (distance from the left margin of the page), but correlations between the average points of location from the top of the page were nonsignificant. Comparison of these results with data from other samples might refine diagnosis.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Projective test findings for boys with gender disturbance: Draw-A-Person Test, IT scale, and Make-A-Picture Story Test.

With 66 boys, aged 3 yr. to 17 yr. who were referred for potential gender-identity disorder, this study examined intrapsychic manifestations as reflected in their projections to the Draw-A-Person Test, the Brown IT Scale for Children, and the Shneidman Make-A-Picture Story Test. Without access to these projective test findings, an independent clinical psychologist provided a diagnostic rating on the severity of gender disturbance on a five-point diagnostic rating scale, based on clinical interviews of the child and his parents and a systematic behavioral assessment based on previously published normative standardization data. For each of the three projective measures, significant correlations were found between the clinician ratings on severity of gender disturbance and the test findings in the feminine direction (D-A-P, r = .44; IT Scale, r = .64; M-A-P-S, r = .35). These results validated the use of intrapsychic phenomena of fantasy and self-perception as measured by these projective tests for the diagnosis of gender disturbance in male children and adolescents.

Adolescent↗