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- The Personality Assessment Screener (PAS) was tested for its effectiveness in diagnosing mood disorders, cluster B personality disorders, and alcohol use disorders using scores from established reference measures.
- The study involved 110 women at a family medicine clinic, showing that the PAS total score can effectively identify these issues but needs higher cut scores than previously suggested.
- The 10 specific PAS elements demonstrated strong relationships with the reference measures, indicating that the PAS is a valuable tool for detecting significant mental health conditions in primary care environments.
Article Abstract
The diagnostic efficiency of the Personality Assessment Screener (PAS; Morey, 1997) total score was evaluated using selected scales from the Patient Health Questionnaire (Spitzer, Kroenke, & Williams, 1999), the fourth edition of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (Hyler, 1994), and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Saunders, Aasland, Babor, DeLaFuente, & Grant, 1993) as reference standards. Complete data were collected from 110 women seeking treatment at an urban family medicine training clinic. Total PAS scores were effective in identifying patients with mood disorders, cluster B personality disorders, and alcohol use disorders, but the optimum cut scores were higher than the cut score of 19 recommended by Morey (1997). The 10 PAS element scores showed good convergent and discriminant correlations with the reference measures. These findings support the utility of the PAS to screen for major forms of psychopathology in an urban primary care setting.
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