| Title | The utility of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale (GADSS) with older adults in primary care. | | Author(s) | Weiss BJ, Calleo J, Rhoades HM, Novy DM, Kunik ME, Lenze EJ, Stanley MA | | Institution | Houston Center for Quality of Care Utilization Studies, Health Service Research and Development Service, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas. | | Source | Depress Anxiety 2008 Oct 6. | | Abstract | Background:The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale (GADSS) is an interview rating scale designed specifically for assessing symptom severity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), which has demonstrated positive psychometric data in a sample of adult primary care patients with GAD and panic disorder. However, the psychometric properties of the GADSS have not been evaluated for older adults.
Methods: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the GADSS, administered via telephone, with a sample of older primary care patients (n=223) referred for treatment of worry and/or anxiety.
Results: The GADSS demonstrated adequate internal consistency, strong inter-rater reliability, adequate convergent validity, poor diagnostic accuracy, and mixed discriminant validity.
Conclusions: Results provide mixed preliminary support for use of the GADSS with older adults. Depression and Anxiety 0:1-6, 2008, Published 2008 Wiley-Lis, Inc. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 18839400 |
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