1. Utility and validity of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) as a transdiagnostic scale
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Hofmann, Andreas B, Schmid, Hanna M, Jabat, Mounira, Brackmann, Nathalie, Noboa, Vanessa, Bobes, Julio, García-Portilla, María Paz, Seifritz, Erich, Vetter, Stefan, Egger, Stephan T, University of Zurich, and Egger, Stephan T
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Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Psychometrics ,Psychopathology ,10054 Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics ,Mental Disorders ,Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ,Humans ,Reproducibility of Results ,610 Medicine & health ,2803 Biological Psychiatry ,Biological Psychiatry - Abstract
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was originally conceived to assess psychopathology in several psychiatric disorders, making it an appropriate candidate to be used as a transdiagnostic instrument. We analyzed the utility and validity of the BPRS in a diagnostically heterogeneous sample of 600 psychiatric inpatients. As a comparator, we chose the mini-ICF-APP, a scale used to measure functioning and impairment across the diagnostic spectrum. Both scales had good internal consistency. The BPRS and the mini-ICF-APP showed a moderate correlation, with good levels of agreement. We were able to identify general symptoms present across the diagnostic spectrum, influencing severity and a cluster of symptoms specific for each diagnosis. Our results show the utility and validity of the BPRS as a transdiagnostic assessment tool that could easily be introduced in routine clinical work.
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- 2021