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    The Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is an 11-item self-report questionnaire used to diagnose and assess the severity of kleptomania disorder. It has demonstrated good reliability and validity based on studies comparing individuals with kleptomania to prisoners. While not designed specifically for it, the K-SAS can also provide insights into a patient's response to kleptomania treatments over time. No limitations have been reported for the K-SAS compared to other kleptomania assessment tools.

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    The Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is an 11-item self-report questionnaire used to diagnose and assess the severity of kleptomania disorder. It has demonstrated good reliability and validity based on studies comparing individuals with kleptomania to prisoners. While not designed specifically for it, the K-SAS can also provide insights into a patient's response to kleptomania treatments over time. No limitations have been reported for the K-SAS compared to other kleptomania assessment tools.

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    The Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is an 11-item self-report questionnaire used to diagnose and assess the severity of kleptomania disorder. It has demonstrated good reliability and validity based on studies comparing individuals with kleptomania to prisoners. While not designed specifically for it, the K-SAS can also provide insights into a patient's response to kleptomania treatments over time. No limitations have been reported for the K-SAS compared to other kleptomania assessment tools.

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    The Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is an 11-item self-report questionnaire used to diagnose and assess the severity of kleptomania disorder. It has demonstrated good reliability and validity based on studies comparing individuals with kleptomania to prisoners. While not designed specifically for it, the K-SAS can also provide insights into a patient's response to kleptomania treatments over time. No limitations have been reported for the K-SAS compared to other kleptomania assessment tools.

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    The passage discusses the Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS), an 11-item diagnostic tool used to assess the severity of kleptomania disorder.

    The Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is an 11-item diagnostic instrument designed to assess kleptomania disorder.

    The K-SAS is a self-report questionnaire that measures symptoms of kleptomania, with each item scored on a scale of 0-4 for a total score ranging from 0-44. Higher scores indicate more severe symptoms, with specific score ranges corresponding to mild, moderate, and severe kleptomania.

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    Kleptomania Disorder

    Identify an instrument: Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS)

    Identify a scholarly, peer-reviewed article that addresses the use of the instrument: Validity

    and reliability of the Japanese version of the kleptomania symptom assessment scale: A

    comparison between individuals with kleptomania and prisoners in Japan.

    Discuss if the instrument is appropriate for diagnosing the condition it is designed to assess

    or if the developers of the instrument reported that the instrument is only part of a

    comprehensive assessment for the disorder: K-SAS is an 11-item diagnostic instrument

    designed assess kleptomania disorder (Asami et al., 2020). The tool was developed and is widely

    used to measure the severity of kleptomania disorder. Given its comprehensive items with a

    scoring scale of 0 to 4, the instrument allows providers to determine the severity of the disorder,

    allowing them to provide appropriate treatment recommendations to the patients.

    Describe whether or not the instrument can be used to measure patient response to

    therapy/treatment: Although it is was not designed to measure patient response to therapy, the

    instrument can provide significant results when comparing patients under different treatments.

    For instance, Asami et al. (2020) demonstrated that the instrument was used to compare scores of

    patients two on different phases of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment, with the results

    indicating no statistical significance, but maintenance CBT treatment produced less scores than

    those in initial CBT (Asami et al., 2020).

    Discuss the psychometrics of the instrument, including reliability and validity:

    K-SAS is an 11-item self-report questionnaire established to assess symptoms of kleptomania,

    with each item scored on a scale of 0-4; hence total score ranges from 0-44. The severity of the

    symptoms would lie between 0 to 44, with 31-44 indicating severe, 21-30 indicating moderate,
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    and 8-20 regarded as mild kleptomania. K-SAS has demonstrated good reliability and validity

    (Asami et al., 2020). With n=12, fair test-retest correlation produced a correlation of .57 with a

    high Cronbach’s alpha (0.90). The study done by Asami et al. (2020) demonstrated a good

    reliability scores for the K-SAS with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.84, while both the convergent and

    concurrent validity was found to be good. They

    Concluded K-SAS to have good convergent validity and test-retest reliability as well as a high

    Cronbach’s alpha value.

    Discuss any limitations associated with the use of the instrument: The instrument is excellent

    in assessing patients with kleptomania. There are no reported limitations of the tool compared to

    other tools used to diagnose kleptomania.


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    References

    Asami, Y., Nomura, K., Shimada, H., Ohishi, H., & Ohishi, M. (2020). Validity and reliability of

    the Japanese version of the kleptomania symptom assessment scale: A comparison

    between individuals with kleptomania and prisoners in Japan. Comprehensive

    psychiatry, 96, 152133.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X19300562

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