Italian validation of Multiple Visual Analogue Scales for Bipolarity (MVAS-BP) of Ahearn and Carroll

作者：Staccini Laura^*; Tomba Elena; Ottolini Fedra; Ruini Chiara; Fava Giovanni Andrea

来源：Rivista di Psichiatria, 2012, 47(1): 50-58.

• mood disorders
• self-assessment
• clinimetric properties
• bipolar disorder

Aim. The aim of the present study was to validate the Italian version and to assess the clinimetric properties of Ahearn and Carroll%26apos;s Visual Analogue Scales for Bipolarity (MVAS-BP), a self-rating questionnaire measuring affective state. Method. MVAS-BP consist of 26 items: 1 item assesses overall mood, 2 items anger and 23 items are based on the Carroll model of bipolar disorder (Consummatory Reward, Incentive Reward, Central Pain, Psychomotor Regulation). MVAS-BP have been translated into Italian and administered with Kellner%26apos;s Symptom Questionnaire (SQ), Ryff%26apos;s Psychological Well-Being Scales (PWB), and Cloninger%26apos;s Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) to a normative sample of 450 people. The assessment was repeated after one month. Test-retest reliability, means scores, differences according to sociodemographic variables and correlations among the scales of MVAS-BP, SQ, PWB and TPQ were performed in order to assess clinimetric properties. Results. Test-retest coefficients were highly significant. Significant sex differences were found in the scales of consummatory reward, central pain, psychomotor regulation and anger. MVAS-BP scales were significantly related with symptom and well-being scales, but with very low correlation coefficients, and only with one personality dimension, TPQ Harm Avoidance. Discussion. MVAS-BP has been found to possess clinimetric properties and to record specific and different information from those investigated by other questionnaires.

• 出版日期2012-2