Single-Item Screening for Agoraphobic Symptoms: Validation of a Web-Based Audiovisual Screening Instrument

Wouter van Ballegooijen; Heleen Riper; Tara  Donker; Katherina Martin Abello; Isaac Marks; Pim Cuijpers

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038480

Single-Item Screening for Agoraphobic Symptoms: Validation of a Web-Based Audiovisual Screening Instrument

Wouter van Ballegooijen
, Heleen Riper
, Tara Donker
, Katherina Martin Abello
, Isaac Marks
, Pim Cuijpers

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Abstract

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 diagnostic
interview. 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.

Original language	English
Article number	e38480
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	7
Issue number	7
Number of pages	8
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038480
Publication status	Published - 23.07.2012

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