The Reliability and Validity of the Panic Disorder Self-Report: A New Diagnostic Screening Measure of Panic Disorder
Newman, M. G., Holmes, M., Zuellig, A. R., Kachin, K. E., & Behar, E. S. (2006). The reliability and validity of the Panic Disorder Self-Report (PDSR): A new diagnostic measure of panic disorder. Psychological Assessment, 18(1), 49-61. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.18.1.49
13 Pages Posted: 28 Jan 2015 Last revised: 8 May 2019
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
This study examined the Panic Disorder Self-Report (PDSR), a new self-report diagnostic measure of panic disorder based on the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). PDSR diagnoses were compared with structured interview diagnoses of individuals with generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder and nonanxious controls. Receiver operating characteristic analyses revealed that the PDSR showed 100% specificity and 89% sensitivity. The PDSR also demonstrated retest reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, and kappa agreement of .93 with a structured interview. Finally, the PDSR demonstrated clinical validity. Students who were identified as having panic disorder using the PDSR did not have significantly different scores on the Panic Disorder Severity Scale--Self-Report form (P. R. Houck, D. A. Speigel, M. K. Shear, & P. Rucci, 2002) than a panic disordered community sample. However, both groups had significantly higher scores than students identified as not meeting criteria for panic disorder.
Keywords: Panic Disorder, Screening Tests, Self Report, Test, Reliability, Validity, Psychodiagnosis, anxiety self-report measure, diagnostic assessment, anxiety disorder assessment, Panic Disorder Self-Report test,
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