Pringle M, Robins S, Brown G
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1984 Jun 2;288(6431):1657-8. doi: 10.1136/bmj.288.6431.1657.
A method has been developed to assess anxiety levels in terms of stress and arousal in patients before and after a consultation with a general practitioner. The MACL self report mood scale has been used in hospital outpatient studies. An adaptation of the scale using 26 items of low vocabulary was applied to general practice patients in a novel way to show appreciable reductions in stress and increases in arousal after consultations. Since arousal is related to efficiency of performance and stress has been inversely related to recall of information given in the consultation factors that affect stress and arousal in patients could usefully be identified.
已经开发出一种方法，用于评估患者在与全科医生会诊前后，基于压力和唤醒水平的焦虑程度。MACL自我报告情绪量表已用于医院门诊研究。一种采用26个低词汇量项目的量表改编版，以一种新颖的方式应用于全科医疗患者，结果显示会诊后压力明显降低，唤醒水平提高。由于唤醒与表现效率相关，而压力与会诊中所提供信息的回忆呈负相关，因此，影响患者压力和唤醒的因素可以得到有效识别。
