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Evidence-based guidelines for interpretation of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale by Toshi A. Furukawa; M. Katherine Shear; David H. Barlow; Jack M. Gorman; Scott W. Woods; Roy Money; Eva Etschel; Rolf R. Engel; Stefan Leucht is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Background: The Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) is promising to be a standard global rating scale for panic disorder. In order for a clinical scale to be useful, we need a guideline for interpreting its scores and their changes, and for defining clinical change points such as response and remission. Methods: We used individual patient data from two large randomized controlled trials of panic disorder (total n 5 568). Study participants were administered the PDSS and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI)-Severity and -Improvement. We applied equipercentile linking technique to draw correspondences between PDSS and CGI-Severity, numeric changes in PDSS and CGI-Improvement, and percent changes in PDSS and CGI-Improvement. Results: The interpretation of the PDSS total score differed according to the presence or absence of agoraphobia. When the patients were not agoraphobic, score ranges 0-1 corresponded with ''Normal,'' 2-5 with ''Borderline,'' 6-9 with ''Slightly ill,'' 10-13 with ''Moderately ill,'' and 14 and above with ''Markedly ill.'' When the patients were agoraphobic, score ranges 3-7 meant ''Borderline ill,'' 8-10 ''Slightly ill,'' 11-15 ''Moderately ill,'' and 16 and abov

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Author

Toshi A. Furukawa; M. Katherine Shear; David H. Barlow; Jack M. Gorman; Scott W. Woods; Roy Money; Eva Etschel; Rolf R. Engel; Stefan Leucht

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)