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Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)

BACKGROUND: Malingering is prevalent in PTSD, especially in delayed-onset PTSD. Despite the attempts to detect it, indicators, tools and methods to accurately detect malingering need extensive scientific and clinical research. Therefore, this study was designed to validate a tool that can detect mal...

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Autores principales: Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh, Lashani, Zeynab, Afzali, Mohammad Hassan, Tavalaie, S Abbas, Mirzaee, Jafar
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-154
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author Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh
Lashani, Zeynab
Afzali, Mohammad Hassan
Tavalaie, S Abbas
Mirzaee, Jafar
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Lashani, Zeynab
Afzali, Mohammad Hassan
Tavalaie, S Abbas
Mirzaee, Jafar
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description BACKGROUND: Malingering is prevalent in PTSD, especially in delayed-onset PTSD. Despite the attempts to detect it, indicators, tools and methods to accurately detect malingering need extensive scientific and clinical research. Therefore, this study was designed to validate a tool that can detect malingering of war-related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST). METHODS: In this blind clinical diagnosis study, one hundred and twenty veterans referred to War Related PTSD Diagnosis Committee in Iran in 2011 were enrolled. In the first step, the clients received Psychiatry diagnosis and were divided into two groups based on the DSM-IV-TR, and in the second step, the participants completed M-FAST. RESULTS: The t-test score within two groups by M-FAST Scale showed a significant difference (t = 14.058, P < 0.0001), and 92% of malingering war-related PTSD participants scored more than 6 and %87 of PTSD group scored less than 6 in M-FAST Scale. CONCLUSIONS: M-FAST showed a significant difference between war-related PTSD and malingering participants. The ≥6 score cutoff was suggested by M-FAST to detect malingering of war-related PTSD.
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spelling pubmed-36940342013-06-27 Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST) Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh Lashani, Zeynab Afzali, Mohammad Hassan Tavalaie, S Abbas Mirzaee, Jafar BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Malingering is prevalent in PTSD, especially in delayed-onset PTSD. Despite the attempts to detect it, indicators, tools and methods to accurately detect malingering need extensive scientific and clinical research. Therefore, this study was designed to validate a tool that can detect malingering of war-related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST). METHODS: In this blind clinical diagnosis study, one hundred and twenty veterans referred to War Related PTSD Diagnosis Committee in Iran in 2011 were enrolled. In the first step, the clients received Psychiatry diagnosis and were divided into two groups based on the DSM-IV-TR, and in the second step, the participants completed M-FAST. RESULTS: The t-test score within two groups by M-FAST Scale showed a significant difference (t = 14.058, P < 0.0001), and 92% of malingering war-related PTSD participants scored more than 6 and %87 of PTSD group scored less than 6 in M-FAST Scale. CONCLUSIONS: M-FAST showed a significant difference between war-related PTSD and malingering participants. The ≥6 score cutoff was suggested by M-FAST to detect malingering of war-related PTSD. BioMed Central 2013-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3694034/ /pubmed/23714274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-154 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ahmadi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh
Lashani, Zeynab
Afzali, Mohammad Hassan
Tavalaie, S Abbas
Mirzaee, Jafar
Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title_full Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title_fullStr Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title_full_unstemmed Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title_short Malingering and PTSD: Detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST)
title_sort malingering and ptsd: detecting malingering and war related ptsd by miller forensic assessment of symptoms test (m-fast)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-154
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