TY - JOUR
T1 - Goal attainment scaling
T2 - An idiosyncratic method to assess treatment effectiveness in agoraphobia
AU - de Beurs, Edwin
AU - Lange, Alfred
AU - Blonk, Roland W.B.
AU - Koele, Peter
AU - van Balkom, Anton J.L.M.
AU - Van Dyck, Richard
PY - 1993/12
Y1 - 1993/12
N2 - Goal attainment scaling (GAS) is an individually tailored way to measure treatment gains, using a highly standardized procedure. An advantage of the method is that it takes into account individual characteristics of the patients, and at the same time the data are suitable for quantitative analysis and comparable across patients. Despite the wide acceptance and use of the method in the evaluation of psychotherapy, data on its psychometric properties are rather scarce. In the current study, GAS was used as one of several outcome measures in a research project on the effectiveness of various treatments for panic disorder with agoraphobia. Guidelines for GAS are presented as well as data on the reliability and validity of the procedure. Results indicate that the procedure is reliable, valid, and sensitive to the improvement of patients during treatment. Comparison of GAS with standardized measures revealed considerable concordance, although the clinical end status of patients diverged somewhat dependent on the measure considered.
AB - Goal attainment scaling (GAS) is an individually tailored way to measure treatment gains, using a highly standardized procedure. An advantage of the method is that it takes into account individual characteristics of the patients, and at the same time the data are suitable for quantitative analysis and comparable across patients. Despite the wide acceptance and use of the method in the evaluation of psychotherapy, data on its psychometric properties are rather scarce. In the current study, GAS was used as one of several outcome measures in a research project on the effectiveness of various treatments for panic disorder with agoraphobia. Guidelines for GAS are presented as well as data on the reliability and validity of the procedure. Results indicate that the procedure is reliable, valid, and sensitive to the improvement of patients during treatment. Comparison of GAS with standardized measures revealed considerable concordance, although the clinical end status of patients diverged somewhat dependent on the measure considered.
KW - agoraphobia
KW - goal attainment scaling
KW - panic disorder
KW - treatment changes
KW - validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0027814495&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00965038
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00965038
M3 - Article
SN - 0882-2689
VL - 15
SP - 357
EP - 373
JO - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
JF - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
IS - 4
ER -