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Parent Youth Quality-of-Life Scale Linked to Suicidality at r = -0.50

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A 2,251-child national parent-report preprint found that the 7-item Parent-report Nationwide Quality of Life Scale had internal reliability of alpha = 0.85 and correlated most strongly with suicidality (r = -0.50), depression (r = -0.47), and internalizing symptoms (r = -0.43).1 Research Highlights Reliability was solid for a brief scale: the 7-item parent P-NQLS showed …

PHQ-15 and SSD-12 1-Week Versions Support Clinical Symptom Tracking

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A 2026 psychometric study of 354 Swedish participants found that 1-week versions of the PHQ-15 and SSD-12 mostly preserved internal consistency and construct validity, but reliability was acceptable mainly in clinical participants or when researchers averaged 2 timepoints. Research Highlights Clinical tracking looked more defensible than healthy screening: Hybelius et al. studied 194 people with …