Publications by authors named "T Merten"
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- The study evaluates the effectiveness of the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) as a symptom validity test specifically for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- It compares ADHD patients with control and simulation groups, using various assessments, including the Conners' Adult ADHD Rating Scale (CAARS) and the SRSI.
- Results indicate that while the SRSI shows higher sensitivity in detecting invalid symptom reports, its specificity is lower than that of CAARS, highlighting the need for more comprehensive research on symptom and performance validity measures.
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- The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) is a new tool that helps identify when individuals may be exaggerating symptoms, using both real and fake symptom scales across various health domains.
- An Italian version (SRSI-It) was assessed for its reliability and validity, demonstrating a well-organized structure with genuine and pseudosymptom subscales.
- The SRSI-It showed strong overlap with established assessments for symptom credibility and provided specific cut scores to effectively detect symptom exaggeration, making it beneficial for clinical and forensic evaluations.
Background: Psychometric symptom validity instruments (SVTs) can be vulnerable to coaching, which can negatively affect their performance. Our aim was to assess the impact that different types of coaching may have on the sensitivity of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS).
Methods: A simulation design was used with 232 non-clinical adults divided into five experimental simulation conditions and 58 patients with anxious-depressive symptomatology derived from a traffic accident.
Questionnaire-based symptom validity tests (SVTs) are an indispensable diagnostic tool for evaluating the credibility of patients' claimed symptomatology, both in forensic and in clinical assessment contexts. In 2019, the comprehensive professional manual of a new SVT, the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI), was published in German. Its English-language version was first tested in the UK.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSymptom feigning and malingering should be evaluated in forensic contexts due to their important socio-economic consequences. Despite this, to date, there is little research in Spain that evaluates its prevalence. The aim of this study was to investigate this issue using the perception of the general population, students, and professionals of medicine and forensic psychology.
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