TY - JOUR

T1 - Single-Item Screening for Agoraphobic Symptoms

T2 - Validation of a Web-Based Audiovisual Screening Instrument

AU - van Ballegooijen, Wouter

AU - Riper, Heleen

AU - Donker, Tara

AU - Martin Abello, Katherina

AU - Marks, Isaac

AU - Cuijpers, Pim

PY - 2012/7/23

Y1 - 2012/7/23

N2 - The advent of web-based treatments for anxiety disorders creates a need for quick and valid online screening instruments, suitable for a range of social groups. This study validates a single-item multimedia screening instrument for agoraphobia, part of the Visual Screener for Common Mental Disorders (VS-CMD), and compares it with the text-based agoraphobia items of the PDSS-SR. The study concerned 85 subjects in an RCT of the effects of web-based therapy for panic symptoms. The VSCMD item and items 4 and 5 of the PDSS-SR were validated by comparing scores to the outcomes of the CIDI diagnosticinterview. Screening for agoraphobia was found moderately valid for both the multimedia item (sensitivity.81, specificity.66, AUC.734) and the text-based items (AUC.607–.697). Single-item multimedia screening for anxiety disorders should be further developed and tested in the general population and in patient, illiterate and immigrant samples.

AB - The advent of web-based treatments for anxiety disorders creates a need for quick and valid online screening instruments, suitable for a range of social groups. This study validates a single-item multimedia screening instrument for agoraphobia, part of the Visual Screener for Common Mental Disorders (VS-CMD), and compares it with the text-based agoraphobia items of the PDSS-SR. The study concerned 85 subjects in an RCT of the effects of web-based therapy for panic symptoms. The VSCMD item and items 4 and 5 of the PDSS-SR were validated by comparing scores to the outcomes of the CIDI diagnosticinterview. Screening for agoraphobia was found moderately valid for both the multimedia item (sensitivity.81, specificity.66, AUC.734) and the text-based items (AUC.607–.697). Single-item multimedia screening for anxiety disorders should be further developed and tested in the general population and in patient, illiterate and immigrant samples.

KW - Psychology

KW - Panik

KW - internetbasiert

KW - screening

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864212715&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/fe9bf14b-d81c-3e8b-9c46-8e921825162b/

U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0038480

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0038480

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 22844391

VL - 7

JO - PLoS ONE

JF - PLoS ONE

SN - 1932-6203

IS - 7

M1 - e38480

ER -