The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
| Autor: | J Andersen, Kirsten Behnke, P Allerup, J K Larsen, Vilhelm Schultz, B. Butler, Bjarne Mejer Nielsen, Per Bech, E. Munk‐Andersen, A. Kørner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychometrics Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Construct validity behavioral disciplines and activities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Scale (social sciences) mental disorders Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale medicine Dimension (data warehouse) Psychology Psychiatry Sufficient statistic Reliability (statistics) Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychopathology. 22:168-176 |
| ISSN: | 1423-033X 0254-4962 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000284591 |
| Popis: | This study has focussed on a 10-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) subscale for the quantification of schizophrenic states. Seven psychiatrists interviewed jointly patients who all fulfilled the DSM-III criteria of schizophrenia, and in a subsequent pencil-and-paper procedure a judgment analysis was performed. The reliability analysis showed that less experienced BPRS raters made less consistent judgments implying the cautionary statement that the proper use of a scale for schizophrenia requires specialized training with the scale. The validity analysis showed that the BPRS items had an additive relationship implying that the sum of these items is a sufficient statistic for the measurement of severity of schizophrenic states. Finally, the results seem to indicate, that the underlying dimension defined by the 10-items BPRS subscale includes hierarchically the negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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