title: [The study of the Polish version of the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity (QADS)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Disgust is one of the principal emotions, typically triggered by a variety of biological and social stimuli. Several questionnaire tools have been used to assess disgust. The aim of the study was to assess psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity (QADS), adapted from the tool prepared by the German researchers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eight hundred twenty subjects (631, 77% females and 189, 23% males) aged 18-69 (mean - 28 years) participated in the study. There are 3 subscale in the questionnaire: Core Disgust, Animal Reminder and Contamination. The tool consists of 37 items, the intensity of feeling of disgust is assessed based on 5-point Likert scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the adequacy of grouping of items in the three subscales: Core Disgust, Animal-Reminder, and Contamination-Interpersonal. In our sample, females had higher levels of disgust than males. Several other psychometric variables - high degree of correlations between the subscales, and high reliability -were in agreement with parameters of the original version. The Polish version compared favourably with the original, with Cronbach's alpha of 0.94 for the whole questionnaire and 0.85 - 0.90 for the subscales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The psychometric properties of the Polish version of QADS are sufficient to recommend this tool for diagnostic and research use.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Psychiatrii UM we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szewczuk-Bogusławska
authors.affiliation: Instytut Psychologii UW we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Słowińska
authors.affiliation: Instytut Psychologii UW we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bąk
authors.affiliation: Instytut Psychologii UW we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oleszkowicz
authors.affiliation: Centrum Neuropsychiatrii Neuromed we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Kamilla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kasibowska-Kuźniar
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Medycyny Ratunkowej UM we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dudek
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Psychiatrii UM we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stępień
authors.affiliation: I Katedra i Klinika Chirurgii Ogólnej, Gastroenterologicznej i Endokrynologicznej UM we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaliszewski
authors.affiliation: Zakład Medycyny Ratunkowej i Medycyny Katastrof UM w Łodzi.
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Timler
authors.affiliation: Zakład Ratownictwa Medycznego we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zyśko
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D059026:Diagnostic Self Evaluation; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D011044:Poland; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: disgust; factorial validity; questionnaire; reliability