Using the topic you have developed in PSY-530 (if you have not taken PSY-530, pl
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Using the topic you have developed in PSY-530 (if you have not taken PSY-530, please check with your instructor about a topic), write a Research Proposal (2,000-2,500 words) on a topic relevant to the course. To complete the Research Proposal, do the following:
Review the attached document "Research Proposal Guidelines", as well as Topic 7 lecture section on The Results and Discussion Sections in the Research Proposal for a brief overview pertaining to "how to" complete the assignment.
Introductory section: Include hypothesis and a review of the literature.
Method section: Include subsections on Participants, Apparatus/Materials/Instruments, Procedure, and Design.
Results section: Include statistic, critical values, degrees of freedom, and alpha level.
Discussion section: Include interpretation of results, ethical concerns, limitations of study, and suggestions for future research.
Figures and Tables section: Include a minimum of two (either two figures, two tables, or a figure and a table).
Include at least 8-10 scholarly references.
I am trying to figure out the best method to test whether or not prenatal drug use contributes to mental illness and/or developmental delays in children during adolescence. Thank you!
Explanation / Answer
Depression in people with categorization according to DSM types.
Introduction: The studies were conducted on a group of patients according to the Beck inventory of depression. Depression causes anxiety, stress, mental tension, anxiety and distortion of vision with change in the stature of the human body. The groups were made with the hypothesis including the following factors for study like age of person, sex of person, language, target distribution and geographical location of people with study of race and ethnicity. The analysis revealed the study of the depression patterns of the people belonging to different regions of the world. The variable factors included in the study consists of diseases in patients, substance use and stressful conditions in life.
Method used include: Medline and Psyinfo databases were used for statisitical analysis. Statistical software packages were used for calculating pearson coeeficient, cronbach alpha value and for comparing and analyzing the various values in the database library information on the effect of diseases and substance abuse on the mental health of the patient.
Results and discussion include the study of the different parameters used for analyzing depression in people like Montomery depression scale, Zung depression self rating scale, Edinburg rating scale, Geriatric depression scaling and anxiety scale. The pearson coefficient value scaling was discussed and the rating points were analyzed on a scaling index.
References:
Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II: a comprehensive review Yuan-Pang Wang,1 Clarice Gorenstein1,2, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria. 2013;35:416–431.
Hiroe T, Kojima M, Yamamoto I, Nojima S, Kinoshita Y, Hashimoto N, et al. Gradations of clinical severity and sensitivity to change assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Japanese patients with depression. Psychiatry Res. 2005;135:229-35.
Joe S, Woolley ME, Brown GK, Ghahramanlou-Holloway M, Beck AT. Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in low-income, African American suicide attempters. JPers Assess. 2008;90:521-3.
Johnson ME, Neal DB, Brems C, Fisher DG. Depression as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II among injecting drug users. Assessment. 2006;13:168-77.
Krefetz DG, Steer RA, Gulab NA, Beck AT.Convergent validity of the Beck depression inventory-II with the reynolds adolescent depression scale in psychiatric inpatients. J Pers Assess. 2002;78:451-60.
Krefetz DG, Steer RA, Kumar G. Lack of age differences in the Beck Depression Inventory-II scores of clinically depressed adolescent outpatients. Psychol Rep. 2003;92:489-97.
Kumar G, Steer RA, Teitelman KB, Villacis L. Effectiveness of Beck Depression Inventory-II subscales in screening for major depressive disorders in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Assessment. 2002;9:164
Kung S, Alarcon RD, Williams MD, Poppe KA, Jo Moore M, Frye MA. Comparing the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression measures in an integrated mood disorders practice. J Affect Disord. 2013;145: 341-3.
Lindsay WR, Skene DD. The Beck Depression Inventory II and the Beck Anxiety Inventory in people with intellectual disabilities: factor analyses and group data. J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2007;20: 401-8. 80 O’Hara M
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