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Avoidance behaviour of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Initial development of a questionnaire,
Agnes van Minnen1, Muriel A Hagenaars
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Overwaal Center for Anxiety Disorders, Pastoor van Laakstraat 48, 6663 CB Lent, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. avminnen@overwaal.nl
Abstract:
In this study, the development of the Posttraumatic Avoidance Behaviour Questionnaire (PABQ) is described and validated in 437 participants; PTSD patients (N = 75), clinical controls (patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia; PDA) (N = 50), and non-clinical traumatized controls (N = 312). Item reduction and exploratory factor analyses yielded 25 items reflecting seven factors. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent and discriminative validity of the PABQ proved adequate. In a second study, the PABQ showed to be sensitive to change due to exposure treatment outcome (N = 26).
