Computer-administered visual analogue mood scales: rapid and valid assessment of mood in HIV positive individuals.
Studies of cognition in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus must take into account the effects of mood. Standardised mood-rating questionnaires are oftentimes consuming and fatiguing for such patients and so may be omitted from experiments. Visual analogue rating scales for affective st...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Reports Vol. 74; pp. 39 - 43 |
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Ammons Scientific, Ltd.
February 1994
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