What is a 'wearable anxiety thermometer"? A Philadelphia startup, spun out of the University of Pennsylvania, just received funding to accelerate its development of the device.

Anxiety now afflicts one-third of Americans—a three-fold rise from pre-pandemic levels. New scientific insights are pointing the way toward effective treatment. ... An Anxiety Thermometer.

With cold and flu season dragging on as we await springtime — not to mention rising anxiety over the spreading coronavirus — you might find yourself breaking out the thermometer at the first ...

Picture an internal thermometer that gauges your discomfort in real-time, ranging from zero (serene and composed) to one hundred (on the verge of imploding from anxiety, fear, and stress).

The fear, worry or anxiety thermometer. Method of use of visual/verbal analogue scales. A baseline level is first taken. Many research measures use scores of 0 to 8 for ease of data entry.

A Distress Thermometer with a cutoff score of ≥4 is a very short tool that can be useful for predicting suicidal ideation in patients with cancer. Patients with high DT scores and psychosocial ...

Anxiety disorders have become one of the top conditions for receiving medical cannabis since becoming a qualifying condition for the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana (PAMMJ) Program in 2019. Yet, the ...

Depression, anxiety, and distress are common during the course of cancer. 1 Three large-scale studies suggest that the overall prevalence of distress in unselected cancer patients is greater than 30%.