Psychotherapy and Counselling
Psychotherapy and Counselling
Helps monitor response to treatment by measuring severity of panic symptoms and their occurrence.
For the purpose of the PDSS questionnaire a panic attack is defined as a sudden rush of fear or discomfort accompanied by at least 4 of the symptoms listed below:
Episodes like panic attacks but having fewer than 4 of the listed symptoms are called limited symptom attacks.
The PDSS questionnaire consists of 7 questions developed for measuring the severity of panic disorder
The PDSS questions address:
Each of the 7 items are rated on a 5-point scale (from 0 to 4), so final scores range from 0 to 28, where the higher the score the greater the degree of panic disorder symptom severity. A composite score may also be documented, by dividing the score to 7.
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