Panic Disorder Severity Scale.
PDSS
Overall panic-disorder severity across panic frequency, distress during attacks, anticipatory anxiety, agoraphobic fear/avoidance, interoceptive fear/avoidance, and work + social impairment
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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.
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