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A Comparison Of Self-Reports Of Distress And Affective Disorder Diagnoses In Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Receiver Operator Characteristic Analysis, Julia Mcquillan, Judith Fifield, T. Joseph Sheehan, Susan Reisine, Howard Tennen, Victor Hesselbrock, Naomi Rothfield

Bureau of Sociological Research: Faculty Publications

Objective—To compare 3 commonly used psychiatric symptom checklists (the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale [CES-D], the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales [EMAS] to determine their sensitivity, specificity, and ability to discriminate between a disorder (Major Depression [MD], Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD], and no disorder. To compare the checklists for their ability to discriminate between type of disorder (MD and GAD). To evaluate the discriminant ability of the subscales, particularly positive affect; whether the somatic items in the CES-D artificially inflate affective scores; and the optimal cut off score for the CES-D.

Methods—We compared …