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The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale for Children: A Reliability Study

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1986
Forty-eight children and adolescents with widely varied presenting problems were interviewed by paired clinician-raters to evaluate the reliability of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale for Children (Overall & Pfefferbaum, 1982), a 21-item rating scale that provides a descriptive profile of child and adolescent psychopathology.
John Gale, Betty Pfefferbaum, Melanie A. Suhr, John E. Overall   +3 more
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The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale: Schizophrenia, Reliability and Validity Studies

Nordisk Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift, 1986
In an attempt to increase uniformity and unambiguity of evaluation through rating scales of schizophrenia and schizophrenialike psychosis, the 5-step edition of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is used. In this edition of BPRS the 18 symptoms and the symptom grading are expressed in explicit item definitions.
John Andersen, Jens Knud Larsen, Alex Kørner, Bjarne Mejer Nielsen, Vilhelm Schultz, Kirsten Behnke, Niels Bjørum   +6 more
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Meta-analysis of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale factor structure.

Psychological Assessment, 2005
A meta-analysis (N=17,620; k=26) of factor analyses of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was conducted. Analysis of the 12 items from Overall et al.'s (J. E. Overall, L. E. Hollister, & P. Pichot, 1974) 4 subscales found support for his 4 subscales. Analysis of all 18 BPRS items found 4 components similar to those of Overall et al.
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Assessing psychopathology in Chinese psychiatric patients in Hong Kong using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1993
This study investigated the use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in a sample of 155 Chinese psychiatric patients in Hong Kong. The commonly rated symptoms were those related to the spectrum of anxiety‐depression, and the symptom dimensions differed only slightly from those symptom clusters reported in past studies with the BPRS.
D W, Chan, B, Lai
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Comparison between the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and the Manchester Scale for the rating of schizophrenic symptoms

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1986
ABSTRACTA reliability study was carried out to compare the short Manchester Scale (MS) to the longer Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), to see if similar items scored the same aspect of pathology and to find the sources of error. The raters were a psychiatrist and a psychologist cum medical student; they had recently arrived in Britain, came from ...
R, Manchanda, R, Saupe, S R, Hirsch
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The Factor Structure of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale in Alzheimer's Disease

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 1994
The factor structure of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is well established with young psychiatric patients. A study by Overall and Beller showed, however, that its factor structure was different with geropsychiatric patients. Although the BPRS has been used in assessing the behavioral characteristics of patients with probable Alzheimer's ...
Ownby, Raymond L, Koss, E, Smyth, K A, Whitehouse, P J   +3 more
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[Validity of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale].

Bratislavske lekarske listy, 1995
The internal structure and validity of terms used in the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Overall and Gorham, 1962) was analyzed. The data which had been gained at the entrance examination of 1557 inpatients with the diagnosis according to ICD-9 (schizophrenia simplex, schizophrenia paranoids, schizoaffective disease depressive type, schizoaffective ...
C, Höschl, J, Kozený, L, Hanzlícek
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Psychometric evaluation of a standardized and expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1991
The interrater reliability, factorial and discriminant validity of a standardized and expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS‐E) were investigated in a heterogeneous short‐stay group of psychiatric inpatients in the Netherlands (n= 162). Repeated separate interviews by single clinicians (psychiatrists, residents or clinical psychologists), best ...
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Factor Structure and Differential Validity of the Expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Assessment, 2004
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is one of the most widely used measures in psychiatric outcome and clinical psychopharmacology research. To date, however, research on the psychometric properties of the expanded version of the BPRS (BPRS-E) has been limited.
Adrian, Thomas, Alison J, Donnell, Tony R, Young   +2 more
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The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1992
In a psychiatric rehabilitation study, 154 concurrent ratings were performed using the 30-item Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Although both instruments had excellent interrater reliability, the PANSS was consistently better: on the 18 symptom items the two instruments share, the PANSS
M, Bell, R, Milstein, J, Beam-Goulet, P, Lysaker, D, Cicchetti   +4 more
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