An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era Veterans

McNeil, Rebecca B; Thomas, Catherine M; Coughlin, Steven S; Hauser, Elizabeth; Huang, Grant D; Goldstein, Karen M; Johnson, Marcus R; Dunn-Thomas, Tyra; Provenzale, Dawn T

doi:10.1186/1476-069X-12-4

Environmental Health

Table 4 Psychological status evaluations used in major studies of U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War

From: An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era Veterans

Psychological Domain	Instrument	Acronym	Reference
Family and social support	Social Provision Scale		[66, 67]
	Family Relationship Index	FRI	[68]
	Social Support Questionnaire		[69]
	Social Support		[70]
	Family Stress		[71]
	Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale	FACES-II	[72]
	Relationship Quality		[73]
Intelligence	National Adult Reading Test	NART	[74]
	Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale	WAIS	[75]
	Shipley Institute of Living Scale	SILS	[76, 77]
Personality	Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness Personality Inventory	NEO-PI	[78]
	Dispositional Resilience Scale	DRS	[79]
	Eysenck Personality Questionnaire		[80]
Psychiatric status	Hopkins Symptom Checklist	HSCL	[81, 82]
	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2	MMPI-2	[83]
	Personality Assessment Inventory		[84]
	Composite International Diagnostic Interview	CIDI	[85]
	Symptom Checklist-90-Revised	SCL-90R	[86]
	Diagnostic Interview Schedule	DIS	[87]
	Brief Symptom Inventory	BSI	[88, 89]
	Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R	SCID	[90]
	Health Screening System	HSS	[91]
Depression	Prime-MD/Patient Health Questionnaire	PHQ	[92, 93]
	Beck Depression Inventory	BDI	[94]
Anxiety	Anxiety Sensitivity Index	ASI	[95]
	Beck Anxiety Inventory	BAI	[96, 97]
	State-Trait Anxiety Inventory		[98]
Cognitive Functioning	Digit Span		[75]
	California Verbal Learning Test	CVLT	[99]
	Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test		[100, 101]
	Test of Memory Malingering	TOMM	[102]
	Wechsler Memory Scale	WMS	[103, 104]
	Recognition Memory Test		[105]
	Heaton Memory Test		[106]
	Continuous Visual Memory Test		[107]
	Auditory Verbal Learning Test	AVLT	[108]
	Trail-Making Tests A & B		[109, 110]
	Continuous Performance Test		[111, 112]
	Cognitive Failure Questionnaire		[113]
	Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test		[114]
	Stroop Test		[115]
	Performance On-line		[116]
	Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test		[117, 118]
	Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test	PASAT	[119]
	Controlled Oral Word Association Test	COWAT	[120]
	Neurobehavioral Evaluation System Continuous Performance Test		[121]
	Behavioral Assessment and Research System	BARS	[122]
	Symbol Digit		[123]
	Simple Reaction Time		[124]
	Oregon Dual-Task Procedure		[125]
Psychomotor function	Grip Strength Test
	Symbol Digit		[123]
	Grooved Pegboard		[126]
	Purdue Pegboard		[127]
	Finger Tapping Test		[109, 128]
Health perception	Sickness Impact Profile		[129, 130]
	Barsky Amplification Scale		[131]
	Illness Behavior Questionnaire		[132]
Quality of Life	Quality of Life Inventory		[133]

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