Anchoring the Panic Disorder Severity Scale

Autor/inn/en	Keough, Meghan E.; Porter, Eliora; Kredlow, M. Alexandra; Worthington, John J.; Hoge, Elizabeth A.; Pollack, Mark H.; Shear, M. Katherine; Simon, Naomi M.
Titel	Anchoring the Panic Disorder Severity Scale
Quelle	In: Assessment, 19 (2012) 2, S.257-259 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191112436668
Schlagwörter	Anxiety Disorders; Quality of Life; Severity (of Disability); Psychotherapy; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Correlation; Drug Therapy; Adults; Questionnaires + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensqualität; Schweregrad; Psychotherapie; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Korrelation; Fragebogen
Abstract	The Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) is a clinician-administered measure of panic disorder symptom severity widely used in clinical research. This investigation sought to provide clinically meaningful anchor points for the PDSS both in terms of clinical severity as measured by the Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scale (CGI-S) and to extend its clinical meaningfulness by examining its association with quality of life. A total of 63 individuals with a primary diagnosis of panic disorder were assessed on completion of a 6- or 8-week psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy trial for the treatment of panic disorder. As expected, the PDSS was correlated with both the CGI-S and quality of life. These results provide further support for the validity and clinical utility of the PDSS and provide simple anchors to help guide the potential use of the PDSS scale to measure treatment progress in clinical practice. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10