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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2009 Mar 31;166(1):76-84.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.11.008. Epub 2009 Feb 5.

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

Suck Won Kim  1 , Jon E Grant, Marc N Potenza, Carlos Blanco, Eric Hollander
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Randomized Controlled Trial

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

Suck Won Kim et al. Psychiatry Res. .

Abstract

Two hundred seven patients with DSM-IV Pathological Gambling Disorder completed both the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) and the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale--modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) at baseline visit and weekly or biweekly thereafter during the 12-week study period. The week 1 to week 2 visit data were used to assess test-retest reliability. Weekly or biweekly data were used for the G-SAS validity. The PG-YBOCS reliability and validity data have been published previously. We used the PG-YBOCS as the established scale and compared the G-SAS performance with the PG-YBOCS. Test-retest reliability was statistically significant. The correlations between the G-SAS and the PG-YBOCS and Clinical Global Impression rating were excellent. Findings suggest that the G-SAS is reliable and valid in assessing changes in symptoms during a drug treatment study.

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