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A New Questionnaire for Estimating the Severity of Visual Height Intolerance and Acrophobia by a Metric Interval Scale

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Neurology, June 2017
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Title
A New Questionnaire for Estimating the Severity of Visual Height Intolerance and Acrophobia by a Metric Interval Scale
Published in
Frontiers in Neurology, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2017.00211
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Authors

Doreen Huppert, Eva Grill, Thomas Brandt

Abstract

To construct and validate a short scale for the assessment of the severity of visual height intolerance (vHI) and acrophobia. The questionnaire was developed from two earlier representative epidemiological studies (n = 5,529). Items were applied in a telephone survey of a representative population-based sample. A total of 1,960 persons were included. The life-time prevalence of vHI was 32.7% (f: 36.1%; m: 28.4%); 12% of these persons fulfilled the psychiatric criteria of acrophobia. Rasch analysis of 11 items on severity, symptoms, and triggers resulted in an 8-item scale with good fit to the model. The score differentiated well between persons with and without acrophobia. The distribution of the scores on the metric scale of the questionnaires of those individuals with acrophobia is separate and distinct from that of susceptibles without acrophobia, although there is some overlap. Our proposed short questionnaire (vHISS, see Table 1 and Supplementary Material) allows a continuous quantification of the severity of vHI within a metric interval scale from 0 to 13. The diagnosis of acrophobia can be established by including two additional questions.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Lecturer 3 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 18 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 21%
Computer Science 7 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 9%
Neuroscience 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 21 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2022.
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#7,283,695
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#4,532
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#116,333
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#56
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