The Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS): A reliability and validity study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-84

  Suck Won Kim, ^a   Grant, Jon E ^a   Potenza, Marc N ^b   Blanco, Carlos ^c   Hollander, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G SAS); Pathological Gambling Disorder; Rating scale; Reliability; Validity; Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Pathological Gambling (PG YBOCS)

Indexed keywords

NALMEFENE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GAMBLING SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGIC GAMBLING YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 60349122200     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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