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Assessment questionnaire for driving phobia

I suggest adding a section on assessment tools, to start, as follows:

Psychological Assessment of Post-Accident Patients

Canadian psychotherapist James Whetstone has developed his Vehicle Anxiety Questionnaire^[1] to assess the driving phobia of survivors of car accidents. This questionnaire maps the driving phobia along 6 dimensions: (1) Compensating driving behaviours (Items 1 to 6), (2) Passenger anxieties (Items 7 to 10), (3) Physical manifestations of anxiety (Items 11 to 16), (4) Limitations to mobility (Items 17 to 21), (5) Avoidance behaviours (Items 22 to 26), and (6) Challenges to personal and relationship stability (Items 27 to 31).^[1] The answers to Whetstone items can be scored with 0 points for “Not at All,” 1 for “Mildly,” 2 for “Frequently,” and with 3 points for “Constantly.” In clinical use, as the last part of Whetstone questionnaire, the patients are also asked to provide ratings, on a scale from 1 to 10, of anxiety as a driver or as a passenger since their accident and then, also separately the rating of their driver and passenger anxiety over the years before the accident.^[1] In the criterion validation study, Whetstone responses of 53 survivors of car accidents were compared to those of 24 normal controls. There was no overlap between the score distribution in the group of patients (lowest score was 23) and the control group (highest score was 19).^[1] The patients’ scores ranged from 23 to 93, with the average at 65.5 (SD=17.4) and those in a control group ranged from 0 to 19, with the average at 6.8 (SD=5.1). The convergent validity was also very satisfactory: high correlations were found of Whetstone questionnaire to the Driving Anxiety Questionnaire (r=.80) and to the PCL-5 measure of PTSD symptoms (r=.78).^[1] Whetstone scores were found to be also highly correlated with the post-concussion syndrome (r=.63) and moderately with whiplash symptoms (r=.46), post-accident insomnia (r=.56), ratings of post-accident pain (rs ranging from .43 to .50), and ratings of depression (r=.40) and of generalized anxiety (r=.43). Significant correlation was also found of Whetstone to Steiner’s Automobile Anxiety Inventory (r=.45).^[1] Reference Whetstone JP, Cernovsky Z, Tenenbaum S, Poggi G, Sidhu A, Istasy M, Dreer M. Validation of James Whetstone’s Measure of Amaxophobia. Archives of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. 2020; 3(1): 23-33. _______________ Since the WYSIWYG (visual editor) does not seem to be available for this Wikipedia article, I am posting this here. The reference is to an open access article on internet. The article also describes other questionnaire measures of driving phobia and also provides the full text of the Driving Anxiety Questionnaire which is widely used in Ontario, Canada. Explorer333 (talk) 01:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

What is the article you are referring to?   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 00:37, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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Glad you're here!   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 00:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

P.S. I always enjoy seeing another psychologist (or someone knowledgeable about clinical & forensic psychology) such as yourself join the team! There are not enough of us. You clearly have a strong background, as evidenced by your many constructive edits (basically giving the article a fresh start) on Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology. ¶ Here are some "how to" articles that will save you some time and headaches:

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Feel free to ask me any questions. All the best - Mark   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 00:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

References

Your draft article, Draft:Harold Merskey (scientist in psychiatry)

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