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Karl Rickels
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 396
Citations - 18524
Karl Rickels is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Placebo. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 396 publications receiving 18010 citations. Previous affiliations of Karl Rickels include Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Short form of depression inventory: cross-validation.
TL;DR: In this article, the short form of the Depression Inventory was administered to a variety of patient samples totalling 431 Ss. The correlation between test scores and clinicians' ratings ranged from.55 f...
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Psychiatric illness in family practice.
TL;DR: For the majority of "high distress" patients, pharmacotherapy was considered the treatment of choice by physicians, and high concordance existed between the "case" assessment by the physician and the patient's own rating of distress.
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A comparison of two psychiatric screening tests.
TL;DR: A comparison is made between the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Symptom Checklist (SCL) as psychiatric screening tests in community-based research projects, which revealed high correlations between the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Antidepressants for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. A placebo-controlled comparison of imipramine, trazodone, and diazepam.
TL;DR: The results of the study need replication, but suggest a potentially important role for antidepressants, particularly imipramine, in patients suffering from GAD.
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Symptoms of Emotional Distress in a Family Planning Service: Stability over a Four-Week Period
TL;DR: The 25-item Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL–25) was used on two occasions four weeks apart to identify self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients attending a family planning service, but only 28% of patients classified as anxious to start with remained so four weeks later.