I was wondering if someone could help me understand what the
numbers in brackets at the end of a sentence from a text book paragraph mean i
have copied and pasted an example.
Symptom dimensions actually reflect groups of
symptoms that generally occur together and may explain a part of the phenotypic
variation between patients [4,5,6,7,8]. First concepts to classify
symptomatology stem from Kraepelin’s original distinction between affective and
non-affective psychoses with ‘dementia praecox’ [9].
Thank you for your enquiry. If you look at the end of the chapter
you will find a reference list, showing where the information has come from.
Each item in the reference list will be numbered. Where there is more than one
number [4, 5, 6, 7, 8], this means that multiple sources have provided that
information.
There is on-line supprt for your course here
https://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/health
On Campus I would advise you to take advantage of the Study Hub team
https://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/studyhub@library/what-we-offer