Which Assessment Question Would Be Most Appropriate to Ask a Patient

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which assessment question would be most appropriate to ask a patient who has possible generalized anxiety disorder?

• A)"Have you been a victim of a crime or seen someone badly injured or killed?"
• B)"Do you feel especially uncomfortable in social situations involving people?"
• C)"Do you repeatedly do certain things over and over again?"
• D)"Do you find it difficult to control your worrying?"

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Definitions:

Bivariate

Involving or dependent on two variables, often used in statistical analyses to examine the relationship between two sets of data.

Continuous Variables

Variables that can take an infinite number of values within a given range.

Product-moment

A statistical measure of the linear correlation between two variables, often expressed as Pearson's correlation coefficient.

Scatterplot

A type of graph used in statistics to display values for two variables for a set of data, showing the relationship between them.