TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of a screening method for abnormal illness behaviour
AU - Pilowsky, I.
AU - Murrell, T. G.C.
AU - Gordon, A.
PY - 1979
Y1 - 1979
N2 - The 62-item Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ) was administered to 100 Pain Clinic patients and 78 General Practice patients in Seattle, Washington; and to 100 Pain Clinic patients and 155 General Practice patients in Adelaide, South Australia. A discriminant function which included scores on Scale 2 (disease conviction), Scale 3 (somatic focusing), Scale 6 (denial) and Scale 7 (irritability) was derived from the scores of the Seattle populations. When this function was applied to the Adelaide populations, the IBQ was found to have a sensitivity of 97%, specificity of 73.55% and hits-positive rate of 0.70. It appears, therefore, that the IBQ may be successfully utilized as a screening instrument in General Practice populations to identify patients manifesting abnormal illness behaviour.
AB - The 62-item Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ) was administered to 100 Pain Clinic patients and 78 General Practice patients in Seattle, Washington; and to 100 Pain Clinic patients and 155 General Practice patients in Adelaide, South Australia. A discriminant function which included scores on Scale 2 (disease conviction), Scale 3 (somatic focusing), Scale 6 (denial) and Scale 7 (irritability) was derived from the scores of the Seattle populations. When this function was applied to the Adelaide populations, the IBQ was found to have a sensitivity of 97%, specificity of 73.55% and hits-positive rate of 0.70. It appears, therefore, that the IBQ may be successfully utilized as a screening instrument in General Practice populations to identify patients manifesting abnormal illness behaviour.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-3999(79)90005-9
DO - 10.1016/0022-3999(79)90005-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 490453
AN - SCOPUS:0018703851
SN - 0022-3999
VL - 23
SP - 203
EP - 207
JO - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
JF - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
IS - 3
ER -