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Shows how much panic attacks and the fear of them have taken up your past week: how often, how distressing, and how much they limit your life. It is not a diagnosis.
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The PDSS-SR is the self-report form of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale by M. Katherine Shear and colleagues (1997), described by Houck and colleagues in 2002. Its seven questions cover the past week: panic attacks, distress during them, worry about the next one, avoidance of places and of activities that cause physical sensations, and the effect on work and on social life. Each question scores 0 to 4 points and the total runs from 0 to 28.
A questionnaire cannot diagnose panic disorder. Panic attacks can feel like a heart or breathing problem, so if you have chest pain or other physical symptoms you do not understand, see a doctor too.
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Source: PDSS-SR: Panic Disorder Severity Scale, Self Report Form. Scale: Shear M. K., Brown T. A., Barlow D. H., Money R., Sholomskas D. E., Woods S. W., Gorman J. M., Papp L. A., 1997, Multicenter collaborative Panic Disorder Severity Scale, American Journal of Psychiatry 154(11), 1571-1575, DOI 10.1176/ajp.154.11.1571. Self-report form: Houck P. R., Spiegel D. A., Shear M. K., Rucci P., 2002, Reliability of the self-report version of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale, Depression and Anxiety 15(4), 183-185, DOI 10.1002/da.10049.
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