Symptom Inventory and Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire
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Method: The study sample included a group of 410 participants comprised of 282 adult psychiatric outpatients with anxiety and/or major depressive disorders according to DSM-IV criteria and 128 nonpsychiatric control subjects. The presence of psychiatric disorders was determined by using the M.I.N.I. (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview). Structured Clinical Interview for Separation Anxiety Symptoms (SCI-SAS), Separation Anxiety Symptoms Inventory (SASI), Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA), Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS), “Sensitivity to Separations” subscale of Panic Agorapfobic Spectrum Scale (PAS-SR), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) were also given.
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