Screening for generalized anxiety disorder using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire: a receiver operating characteristic analysis

Normative data for the Dutch version of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire

“…Second, with the exception of the Flycatcher subsample of the community sample, we do not know the response rate in the other subsamples, so in this respect the representativeness of these populations is questionable. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the current cutoff scores of the PSWQ compare really well with those obtained in previous research (Behar et al, 2003;Fresco et al, 2003;Gillis et al, 2005), and so it seems reasonable to conclude that the normative data as provided in the current study are suitable for identifying high worrying individuals and for interpreting treatment outcome results. Further, to assist clinicians in assessing treatment progress, on which they can base their decision to continue, adjust or terminate treatment, norm groups for both the full-length and the abbreviated PSWQ in the community sample are presented in Table 5.…”

“…So far, only one investigation has provided norms for the PSWQ in a community sample (Gillis, Haaga, & Ford, 1995). Further, normative data in clinical populations are limited to a handful of studies that reported cut-off scores that may be helpful for discriminating GAD patients from other patient groups (Behar, Alcaine, Zuellig, & Borkovec, 2003;Fresco, Mennin, Heimberg, & Turk, 2003). The present study was designed to provide normative data for the Dutch version of the PSWQ for a sample from the general population and a clinical sample of patients with GAD.…”

Development, psychometric properties and preliminary clinical validation of a brief, session‐by‐session measure of eating disorder cognitions and behaviors: The ED‐15

“…The utility of those measures is demonstrated by their inclusion as core outcome indices in the UK-wide Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. Other measures have been developed to measure specific facets of anxiety, including the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Short (PSWQ) for pathological worry (6), and the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) for social phobia (7). These measures meet the clinical utility and availability criteria outlined above.…”

Hippocampal N-Acetylaspartate Concentration and Response to Riluzole in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

“…A HAM-A cut-off score of 7 is common in psychopharmacological trials of GAD (40); a PSWQ cut-off score of 45 has previously been found to maximize sensitivity and specificity in differentiating GAD patients from non-anxious controls (41). There were no significant interactions between brain side (left or right) and group or between the effect of neurometabolites on anxiety and side; thus right-and left-sided metabolite concentrations were averaged to obtain a mean bilateral concentration for each ROI.…”