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The Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS): A reliability and validity study
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Two hundred seven patients with DSM-IV Pathological Gambling Disorder completed both the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) and the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale--modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) at baseline visit and weekly or biweekly thereafter during the 12-week study period. The week 1 to week 2 visit data were used to assess test-retest reliability. Weekly or biweekly data were used for the G-SAS validity. The PG-YBOCS reliability and validity data have been published previously. We used the PG-YBOCS as the established scale and compared the G-SAS performance with the PG-YBOCS. Test-retest reliability was statistically significant. The correlations between the G-SAS and the PG-YBOCS and Clinical Global Impression rating were excellent. Findings suggest that the G-SAS is reliable and valid in assessing changes in symptoms during a drug treatment study.
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“This scale shows high internal consistency (α = 0.87) and good convergent validity with other measures associated with gambling symptom severity in a sample of pathological gamblers.”
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“The G-SAS is a 12-item self-report instrument that assesses gambling symptom severity, but it is not a screening or diagnostic instrument.”
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- Authors
- Kim, S. W., Grant, J. E., Potenza, M. N., Blanco, C., & Hollander, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- Corresponding author
- Suck Won Kim
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-03
- Volume
- 166
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 76-84
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3641525
- OpenAlex
- W1983336654
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5k23mh069754-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (K23 MH069754)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA019039, R01 DA013039)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- gambling addiction, test-retest reliability, scale validity, symptom assessment, Clinical Global Impression Scale, obsessive-compulsive symptoms
- MeSH terms
- Follow-Up Studies, Gambling, Humans, Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders, Naltrexone, Narcotic Antagonists, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Reproducibility of Results
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