Association analysis between the A118G polymorphism in the OPRM1 gene and treatment response to venlafaxine XR in generalized anxiety disorder

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alissa J. Cooper ◽  
Karl Rickels ◽  
Falk W. Lohoff
Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110625
Author(s):  
Tom H. Rosenström ◽  
Ville Ritola ◽  
Suoma Saarni ◽  
Grigori Joffe ◽  
Jan-Henry Stenberg

Assessment of treatment response in psychotherapies can be undermined by lack of longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) in symptom self-report inventories, by measurement error, and/or by wrong model assumptions. To understand and compare these threats to validity of outcome assessment in psychotherapy research, we studied LMI, sum scores, and Davidian Curve Item Response Theory models in a naturalistic guided internet psychotherapy treatment register of 2,218 generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients and 3,922 depressive disorder (DD) patients (aged ≥16 years). Symptoms were repeatedly assessed by Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment-7 (GAD-7) or Beck Depression Inventory. The symptom self-reports adhered to LMI under equivalence testing, suggesting sum scores are reasonable proxies for disorder status. However, the standard LMI assumption of normally distributed latent factors did not hold and inflated treatment response estimates by 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviation units compared with sum scores. Further methodological research on non-normally distributed latent constructs holds promise in advancing LMI and mental health assessment.


2011 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Sneha Narasimhan ◽  
Rachel Hodge ◽  
Glenn A. Doyle ◽  
David J.M. Kraemer ◽  
Ranjani Prabhakaran ◽  
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Author(s):  
Jack B. Nitschke ◽  
Issidoros Sarinopoulos ◽  
Desmond J. Oathes ◽  
Tom Johnstone ◽  
Paul J. Whalen ◽  
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