Psychometric properties of the Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) among psychiatric outpatients
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Laura B Bragdon1, Gretchen J Diefenbach2, Scott Hannan3
1Binghamton Anxiety Clinic, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, United States.
Background:
The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) is a brief, transdiagnostic measure used to assess anxiety severity and related interference. The OASIS has demonstrated strong psychometric properties in previous investigations, however, it has yet to be validated using a transdiagnostic clinician-rated measure.
Methods:
We evaluated the factor structure, convergent and discriminant validity, and illness severity cut-scores of the OASIS in a sample of outpatients (N=202).
Results:
A confirmatory factor analysis indicated an unidimensional structure provided the best fit. The OASIS demonstrated good convergent validity and internal consistency. Using the Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scale (CGI-S), ROC curves showed OASIS scores of 6, 10 and 12 to indicate moderate, marked and severe illness severity, respectively.
Conclusions:
The OASIS is a unidimensional self-report measure with good convergent validity and data from the current study provide illness severity cut-scores.
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