DSM-IV and the South Oaks Gambling Screen: Diagnosing and Assessing Pathological Gambling in Turkey

Duvarci, İbrahim; Varan, Azmi; Çoşkunol, Hakan; Ersoy, Mehmet Akif

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“…The average lifetime SOGS scores for treatment-seeking gamblers in the United States (Petry 2005) and Hong Kong (Tang et al 2007) is about 12. A total SOGS score of 5 or higher is typically used to classify probable pathological gambling (Lesieur and Blume 1987; Shaffer et al 1997; Stinchfield 2002), although some researchers have suggested using higher cut scores for different samples (Blaszczynski et al 1998; Duvarci et al, 1997). Participants responded to the SOGS items with “yes” or “no”, and affirmative responses were summed to form a total score.…”

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“…Second, the SOGS tends to yield inflated prevalence estimates with high false positives relative to the DSM criteria when used with community samples (Ladouceur et al 2000; Shaffer et al 1997; Stinchfield 2002). One suggestion to address this concern is by raising the cut score (Duvarci et al 1997), but this will at the same time increase the false negative error rate. An alternative solution is to have a two-stage assessment, with the SOGS as the initial screening tool to be followed by a clinical interview (Dickerson 1993) or to supplement the SOGS with a second diagnostic test such as the DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling (Gambino and Lesieur 2006).…”

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Reliability, Validity, and Cut Scores of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for Chinese

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J Gambl Stud

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AbstractsWe examined the reliability, validity, and classification accuracy of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) when adopted for use in Chinese. The DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling served as the standard against which the classification accuracy of the SOGS was tested. A total of 283 Chinese adults in the community and 94 Chinese treatment-seeking gamblers were recruited. The internal reliability of the SOGS was satisfactory for the general sample and acceptable for the gambling sample. The SOGS was correlated with the DSM-IV criteria items as well as psychosocial and gambling-related problems. Relative to the DSM-IV criteria, the SOGS tended to overestimate the number of pathological gamblers in both samples. In general, we were relatively confident that individuals were not pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between 0 and 4 and were pathological gamblers if the SOGS were between 11 and 20. There was about 50–50 chance of being pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between 8 and 10. However, the probability of individuals being pathological gamblers was about 0.30 if the SOGS scores were between 5 and 7. We proposed a SOGS cut score of 8 to screen for probable pathological gambling in Chinese societies.

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Reliability, Validity, and Cut Scores of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for Chinese

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J Gambl Stud

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“…One remedy that has been proposed to reduce SOGS’s false alarm rate (e.g., Duvarci, Varan, Coskunol, & Ersoy, 1997) is an increase in the cut point. The cut point of 5 or more indicating PPG was originally justified as follows: “A score of 5 or more … was chosen as an indication of probable pathological gambling to reduce the number of false-positive and false-negative codings” (Lesieur & Blume, 1987, p. 1186).…”

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Evaluating the South Oaks Gambling Screen With DSM-IV and DSM-5 Criteria

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Despite widespread use, the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) has been criticized for excessive false positives as an indicator of pathological gambling (PG), and for items that misalign with PG criteria. We examine the relationship between SOGS scores and PG symptoms and convergent validity with regard to personality, mood, and addictive behaviors in a sample of 353 gamblers. SOGS scores correlated r = .66 with both DSM-IV and DSM-5 symptoms, and they manifested similar correlations with external criteria (intraclass correlation of .95). However, 195 false positives and 1 false negative were observed when using the recommended cut point, yielding an 81% false alarm rate. For uses with DSM-IV criteria, a cut point of 10 would retain high sensitivity with greater specificity and fewer false positives. For DSM-5 criteria, we advocate a cut point of 8 for use as a clinical screen and a cut point of 12 for prevalence and pseudo-experimental studies.

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A Psychometric Evaluation of the DSM-IV Pathological Gambling Diagnostic Criteria

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Specific diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling (PG) have been available for 25 years, since the publication of DSM-III. Little research has examined the psychometric performance of the diagnostic criteria. The goal of the present report from the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project was to examine the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of the DSM-IV PG criteria for psychiatric outpatients who screened positive for a gambling problem. A total of 1709 psychiatric outpatients were evaluated with a semistructured diagnostic interview for PG. Of all patients 88 screened positive for PG, 40 of whom met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for a lifetime history of PG. All ten DSM-IV criteria were significantly more frequent in the PG group. The sensitivity of the criteria ranged from 25.0% to 90.0% (mean = 67.8%), whereas specificity ranged from 62.5% to 100% (mean = 81.9%). Positive predictive values ranged from 64.1% to 100% (mean = 78.9%), and negative predictive values ranged from 61.5% to 90.7% (mean = 77.1%). Guidelines are recommended for determining whether a diagnostic criterion should be retained as part of the set of diagnostic criteria, and our results suggested that two of the DSM-IV PG criteria are candidates for elimination (criterion 8--commitment of illegal acts; criterion 10--reliance on others for financial assistance to relieve a desperate financial problem).

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DSM-IV and the South Oaks Gambling Screen: Diagnosing and Assessing Pathological Gambling in Turkey

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

Reliability, Validity, and Cut Scores of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for Chinese

Reliability, Validity, and Cut Scores of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for Chinese

Evaluating the South Oaks Gambling Screen With DSM-IV and DSM-5 Criteria

A Psychometric Evaluation of the DSM-IV Pathological Gambling Diagnostic Criteria

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