Publications by authors named "Dianna McDonald"
Article Synopsis
- Climate change anxiety is impacting individual well-being globally, and psychological interventions might have unintended consequences on social cohesion and pro-environmental behaviors.
- A proposed multiple needs framework analyzes these interventions' effects on individual, social, and environmental outcomes, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive understanding.
- The systematic review highlights effective interventions like problem-focused action and emotion management, while also identifying areas needing further research on interconnected outcomes.
Background: Quality of life is paramount for patients and clinicians, but existing measures of health were not developed for routine use.
Objectives: This paper describes the development and testing of a new generic tool for measuring health related quality of life (HRQoL) with direct comparison to the SF-12 Health Survey.
Methods: The new tool (howRu) has four items (discomfort, distress, disability and dependence), rated using four levels (none, a little, quite a lot and extreme), providing 256 possible states (4(4)); it has an aggregate scoring scheme with a range from 0 (worst) to 12 (best).