Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21) for Finnish-speaking adults: Validation and normative data.

We conducted the first validation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21) in Finnish. DASS-21 is a short public domain questionnaire, which presents a way to quickly and effectively screen for mental ill health. We recruited two large samples, one aged 24-45 ( = 3,101 [2,488 women]), and the other aged 60-82 ( = 5,462 [4,473 women]), all employees of the city of Helsinki at inclusion (2017 and 2000-2002).

Childhood motor difficulties and cognitive impairment in midlife: A 40-year cohort study.

Objective: We aimed to examine the association of childhood motor difficulties (MD) with cognitive impairment in midlife.

Method: We studied 357 participants from a cohort born in 1971-1975. At age 9, they had completed the Test of Motor Impairment, which classified them into three groups: childhood MD (cMD), borderline cMD (bcMD), or no cMD.

Motor difficulties from childhood to midlife: A 40-year cohort study.

Background: There are few studies of the persistence of childhood motor difficulties (MD) into adulthood.

Aims: To investigate the association of childhood MD with motor skills and body mass index (BMI) in midlife.

Methods And Procedures: We studied 324 adults aged 40 from a cohort born in 1971-1974.

The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale as an Outcome Measure in Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Observational Study.

Background: Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) is effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders. iCBT clinical trials use relatively long and time-consuming disorder-specific rather than transdiagnostic anxiety measurements. Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) is a brief self-report scale that could offer a universal, easy-to-use anxiety measurement option in disorder-specific and transdiagnostic iCBT programs.

Pain-related and psychological factors mediate the effect of personality on health-related quality of life. A study in breast cancer survivors with persistent pain.

Introduction: Personality characteristics affect the long-term well-being and health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of breast cancer (BC) survivors. Persistent pain significantly affects psychosocial well-being and HrQoL in this patient group. We studied the effects of temperament and character via pain-related and psychological factors on dimensions of HrQoL in BC survivors.