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The Panic‐Associated Symptom Scale: measuring the severity of panic disorder
Author(s) -
Argyle N.,
Deltito J.,
Allerup P.,
Maier W.,
Albus M.,
Nutzinger D.,
Ayuso J. L.,
Bech P.,
Rasmussen S.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1991.tb05506.x
Subject(s) - panic disorder , panic , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychometrics , anxiety disorder , anxiety , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
The Panic‐Associated Symptom Scale (PASS) is presented as a new measurement of the severity of the core symptoms of panic disorder. This first description addresses the rationale for its design and its scoring, score distributions, test‐retest reliability, correlations within the PASS and with other scales, principal component structure, and response to drug therapy. Data are presented from a large study group of patients with panic disorder ( n = 1168). Problems in measuring panic disorder are discussed.