공황평가표의 한국판 표준화를 위한 예비연구

Abstract

In recent studies on panic disorder, it is coming to be known that patient's cognitive appraisal on the panic attack is the best predictor of agoraphobic avoidance. This study is a preliminary research to develop a Korean version of Panic Appraisal Inventory(PAI) which examines the cognitive appraisal on the panic attack. The Panic Appraisal Inventory developed by Telch et al has been translated into Korean in consideration of the differences in culture and language, followed by testing its reliability. The subjects were twenty in number, who were diagnosed, based on DSM-Ⅳ criteria, as panic disorder by a psychiatrist and a psychiatric resident. The following are the results of this study: The correlation coefficient of the scale 1 in the test-retest reliability was a significant of 0.58 ; in Crohn- bach's alpha, showed a high internal consistency with 0.86 ; the correlation coefficient of the scale 2 was a relatively high of 0.81 ; among the three subscales of the scale 2, the correlation coefficient of the P subscale was 0.63, that of the L subscale, 0.83, and that of the L subscale, 0.78, and all of them were significant ; Crohnbach's alpha of the scale 2 showed a high internal consistency with 0.92 ; the correlation coefficient of the scale 3 was a relatively high of 0.83 ; in Crohnbach's alpha, showed a high consistency with 0.88. As results of factor analysis for the three subscales of the scale 2 by the Varimax rotation method, the extracted factors were not correlated with the items of three subscales. In conclusion, this is a preliminary study designed to standardize a Korean version of Panic Appraisal Inventory, and the tests of the reliability and the internal consistency of each item showed significant results. Follow-up studies should be carried out for validation applying various scales on a larger number of patients.