PMID- 20942367
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101124
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 0035-6484 (Print)
IS  - 0035-6484 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 4
DP  - 2010 Jul-Aug
TI  - [Kennedy V Axis assessment in an Italian outpatient and inpatient population].
PG  - 214-20
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Kennedy Axis V or K Axis acts is an alternative tool to the 
      DSM-IVTR Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale, that many researchers 
      describe as a scale with poor inter-rater reliability and clinical utility. 
      Unlike the GAF scale, K Axis provides a multidimensional and multiaxial approach 
      to measure personal, social and interpersonal functioning in psychiatric 
      outpatients and inpatients. In this study, we examined K Axis's inter-raters 
      reliability by using it with an Italian clinical population. METHODS: Clinicians 
      used Kennedy Axis V to assess global functioning among 180 inpatients, in 9 
      psychiatric services in Lombardia and Piemonte. Patients were divided into 4 
      different diagnostic groups, according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria. RESULTS: 
      Intraclass correlations between two independent raters's scores reveal high level 
      of interrater reliability for all K Axis scales (0,633 < ICC < 0,813). Highly 
      significant results in the Kruskal-Wallis test demonstrate that the patient 
      diagnosis influence all the scales scores. Significant differences in patients 
      functioning profiles in all K Axis scales, apart from Violence one, were noted 
      between different diagnosis groups. CONCLUSIONS: In this study high level of 
      raters agreement was noted, even if K Axis scales were used in different mental 
      health services from different clinicians. K Axis scales provide a useful profile 
      of patient global functioning, in line with the specific pathology.
FAU - Mundo, Emanuela
AU  - Mundo E
AD  - Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica, Facolta di Psicologia I, 
      Sapienza Universita di Roma.
FAU - Bonalume, Laura
AU  - Bonalume L
FAU - Del Corno, Franco
AU  - Del Corno F
FAU - Madeddu, Fabio
AU  - Madeddu F
FAU - Lang, Margherita
AU  - Lang M
LA  - ita
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
TT  - L'applicazione dell'Asse V di Kennedy a un campione clinico italiano.
PL  - Italy
TA  - Riv Psichiatr
JT  - Rivista di psichiatria
JID - 0425672
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Inpatients
MH  - Italy
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Disorders/*diagnosis/*psychology
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Outpatients
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
EDAT- 2010/10/15 06:00
MHDA- 2010/12/14 06:00
CRDT- 2010/10/15 06:00
PHST- 2010/10/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/12/14 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Riv Psichiatr. 2010 Jul-Aug;45(4):214-20.