Screening for alcohol use disorder among individuals with comorbid psychiatric disorders: Diagnostic accuracy in a sample of young Swiss men

Abstract

High symptomatology on psychiatric disorders changed the optimal cut-off score of the AUD screening tool.• AUD should be screening in conjunction with other psychiatric disorders.• There is a need of an integrated approach to screening for AUD.

Validation of self-report measures of narcissism against a diagnostic interview

“…Second, the study was conducted in outpatients with various psychiatric conditions and its findings are not necessarily generalizable to the general population. Indeed, psychometric properties of self-report scales are often weaker in samples with comorbid disorders than in the general population or samples with a single psychiatric disorder [ 7 , 33 , 34 ]. In the present study, a large proportion of patients (>60% in the total sample and in the sample of individuals diagnosed with NPD) had a co-occurring borderline personality disorder and ADHD.…”

“…Unfortunately, this validation is not performed very often because conducting diagnostic interviews is time-consuming and costly. This has been a problem for screening tools used for conditions such as substance use disorders [ 4 ], other addictive disorders [ 5 ], and depression [ 6 ], as well as screening tools used in specific at-risk populations such as individuals with comorbid psychiatric disorders [ 7 ], intimate partner violence survivors [ 8 ] and older adults [ 9 ].…”