TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Mass Screening/methods/standards
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Phobic Disorders/diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology
KW - Primary Health Care/methods
KW - Questionnaires/standards
KW - South Africa/epidemiology
KW - Young Adult
AU - K. Sorsdahl
AU - B. Vythilingum
AU - D. J. Stein
A1 - 
AB - There is little research from low- and middle-income countries examining the psychometric properties of a screening tool for social anxiety disorder. The sensitivity and specificity of the Social Anxiety Screening Questionnaire against the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a gold standard in social phobia diagnosis were investigated using analyses of receiver operating characteristics. The "best subsets" selection procedure was conducted to determine the best three to five questions. Three questions on the screening questionnaire that best discriminate between a positive and negative diagnosis of social anxiety disorder on the MINI module were identified. Answering yes to all three of these questions gives a false-positive rate of 0.44 and a false negative rate of 0.11. For this combination, the sensitivity was 0.84, and specificity was 0.67. Additional work is needed to develop a more accurate scale that could help increase the percentage of people who receive appropriate treatment of this debilitating disorder.
BT - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
C5 - General Literature
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182439732
IS - 2
JF - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
N2 - There is little research from low- and middle-income countries examining the psychometric properties of a screening tool for social anxiety disorder. The sensitivity and specificity of the Social Anxiety Screening Questionnaire against the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a gold standard in social phobia diagnosis were investigated using analyses of receiver operating characteristics. The "best subsets" selection procedure was conducted to determine the best three to five questions. Three questions on the screening questionnaire that best discriminate between a positive and negative diagnosis of social anxiety disorder on the MINI module were identified. Answering yes to all three of these questions gives a false-positive rate of 0.44 and a false negative rate of 0.11. For this combination, the sensitivity was 0.84, and specificity was 0.67. Additional work is needed to develop a more accurate scale that could help increase the percentage of people who receive appropriate treatment of this debilitating disorder.
PP - United States
PY - 2012
SN - 1539-736X; 0022-3018
SP - 163
EP - 166
EP - 
T1 - A screening tool for social anxiety disorder in primary care: data from South Africa
T2 - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
TI - A screening tool for social anxiety disorder in primary care: data from South Africa
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 22297315
U3 - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182439732
VL - 200
VO - 1539-736X; 0022-3018
Y1 - 2012
ER -