Panic Disorder Severity Scale.

PDSS

What it measures

Overall panic-disorder severity across panic frequency, distress during attacks, anticipatory anxiety, agoraphobic fear/avoidance, interoceptive fear/avoidance, and work + social impairment

Length and format

7 items. 5-point (0-4) per dimension; total 0-28; also a self-report PDSS-SR (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

Many languages incl. ES, PT, IT, HU, FI, BCMS, JA, KO, TR, FR and others

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Shear, M. K., Brown, T. A., Barlow, D. H., et al. (1997). Multicenter Collaborative Panic Disorder Severity Scale. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(11), 1571-1575.