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The Work and Social Adjustment Scale: a simple measure of impairment in functioning
The British Journal of Psychiatry · 2002 · Vol. 180(5) · pp. 461–464
James C. Mundt✉Isaac Marks(King's College London)M. Katherine Shear(University of Pittsburgh)John Greist(Healthcare Technology Systems)
Abstract
The WSAS is a simple, reliable and valid measure of impaired functioning. It is a sensitive and useful outcome measure offering the potential for readily interpretable comparisons across studies and disorders.
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentObsessive-Compulsive Spectrum DisordersCronbach's alphaPsychologyConvergent validityReliability (semiconductor)Scale (ratio)Internal consistencyClinical psychologyCorrelationPsychometricsTest (biology)
MeSH terms
Mental DisordersDepressive DisorderFollow-Up StudiesHumansObsessive-Compulsive DisorderPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychometricsSocial AdjustmentReproducibility of ResultsTreatment Outcome
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