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Morrison AS, Ustun B, Horenstein A, Kaplan SC, de Oliveira IR, Batmaz S, Gross JJ, Sadikova E, Hemanny C, Pires PP, Goldin PR, Kessler RC, Heimberg RG. Optimized short-forms of the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire. J Anxiety Disord 2022; 92:102624. [PMID: 36087565 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CD-Quest) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses common cognitive distortions. Although the CD-Quest has excellent psychometric properties, its length may limit its use. METHODS We attempted to develop short-forms of the CD-Quest using RiskSLIM - a machine learning method to build short-form scales that can be scored by hand. Each short-form was fit to maximize concordance with the total CD-Quest score for a specified number of items based on an objective function, in this case R2, by selecting an optimal subset of items and an optimal set of small integer weights. The models were trained in a sample of US undergraduate students (N = 906). We then validated each short-form on five independent samples: two samples of undergraduate students in Brazil (Ns = 182, 183); patients with depression in Brazil (N = 62); patients with social anxiety disorder in the US (N = 198); and psychiatric outpatients in Turkey (N = 269). RESULTS A 9-item short-form with integer scoring was created that reproduced the total 15-item CD-Quest score in all validation samples with excellent accuracy (R2 = 90.4-93.6%). A 5-item ultra-short-form had good accuracy (R2 = 78.2-85.5%). DISCUSSION A 9-item short-form and a 5-item ultra-short-form of the CD-Quest both reproduced full CD-Quest scores with excellent to good accuracy. These shorter versions of the full CD-Quest could facilitate measurement of cognitive distortions for users with limited time and resources.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amanda S Morrison
- Department of Psychology, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA.
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- Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Postgraduate Program of Interactive Processes of Organs and Systems, Health Sciences Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Psychometrics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Création de l’Échelle de Distorsions Cognitives pour adultes (EDC-A) : étude des propriétés psychométriques en population générale et association avec l’anxiété et la dépression. PSYCHOLOGIE FRANCAISE 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.psfr.2021.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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DiGiuseppe R, Gorman B, Raptis J. The Factor Structure of the Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2: Implications for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. JOURNAL OF RATIONAL-EMOTIVE AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOR THERAPY 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10942-020-00349-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Pacheco DDSG, Malagris LEN. Relações entre Estresse, Distorções Cognitivas e Otimismo em Pacientes com Hipertensão. PSICOLOGIA: CIÊNCIA E PROFISSÃO 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1982-3703003186605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Resumo O estudo teve como objetivo investigar possíveis relações entre hipertensão, estresse, otimismo e distorções cognitivas. Foram utilizados como instrumentos um questionário sociobiodemográfico, o Inventário de Sintomas de Stress para Adultos de Lipp, o Questionário de Distorções Cognitivas e o Teste de Orientação de Vida Revisado. A amostra foi constituída de cinquenta pessoas com hipertensão e cinquenta sem hipertensão, de 42 a 69 anos. A maioria dos participantes não estava estressada (67%), e não houve diferença entre os grupos quanto à presença de estresse, grau de otimismo ou distorções cognitivas. No grupo com hipertensão, a presença de estresse relacionou-se de maneira direta às distorções cognitivas, sem relacionar-se ao otimismo. Já no grupo sem hipertensão a presença de estresse relacionou-se de maneira inversa ao otimismo, mas não com o escore geral de distorções cognitivas. Os resultados apontaram que a presença de hipertensão pode atuar sobre as relações entre o estresse, distorções cognitivas e otimismo.
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Do sudden gains predict treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder? Findings from two randomized controlled trials. Behav Res Ther 2019; 121:103453. [PMID: 31430688 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Sudden gains (SGs) have been found to occur during randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for social anxiety disorder (SAD). Evidence is mixed whether SGs relate to treatment outcome in SAD. We examined SGs in two RCTs for SAD. METHOD Study 1 (N = 68) examined SGs in individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and Study 2 (N = 100) compared SGs in group CBT and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Weekly ratings of social anxiety were used to calculate SGs. The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale-Self-Report and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale were completed at pretreatment, posttreatment, and follow-up to assess outcome. RESULTS In Study 1, 17.6% of participants experienced a SG. Participants with SGs started and ended treatment with lower social anxiety. SGs were not associated with greater decreases in social anxiety from pre-to posttreatment or 12-month follow-up. In Study 2, SGs occurred in 27% of participants and at comparable rates in MBSR and group CBT. SGs were not associated with changes in social anxiety during treatment in either condition. CONCLUSION SGs occurred during treatment for SAD. In both RCTs, participants improved regardless of experiencing a SG, suggesting that SGs are not predictive of greater improvement during treatment for SAD.
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Kaplan SC, Morrison AS, Goldin PR, Olino TM, Heimberg RG, Gross JJ. The Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CD-Quest): Validation in a Sample of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH 2017; 41:576-587. [PMID: 28966414 PMCID: PMC5617126 DOI: 10.1007/s10608-017-9838-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cognitive distortions are thought to be central to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and are a widely acknowledged treatment target in cognitive-behavioral interventions. However, little research has focused on the measurement of cognitive distortions. The Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CD-Quest; de Oliveira, 2015), a brief, 15-item questionnaire, assesses the frequency and intensity of cognitive distortions. The CD-Quest has been shown to have sound psychometric properties in American, Australian, and Brazilian undergraduate samples and one Turkish-speaking outpatient clinical sample. The current study aimed to provide the first evaluation of the psychometric properties of the English version of the CD-Quest in a clinical sample and the first evaluation of any version of the CD-Quest in a sample of adults diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD). In a sample of treatment-seeking adults with SAD, the CD-Quest demonstrated good convergent validity, discriminant validity, known-groups validity, and treatment sensitivity. It also showed good internal consistency, and both confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses supported the previously reported unitary factor structure. Findings extend prior research indicating the reliability and validity of the CD-Quest.
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