Journal ArticleDOI
A rating scale for mania: reliability, validity and sensitivity.
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The MRS score correlated highly with an independent global rating, and with scores of two other mania rating scales administered concurrently, and also correlated with the number of days of subsequent stay in hospital.Abstract:
An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation between the scores of two independent clinicians on both the total score (0.93) and the individual item scores (0.66 to 0.92). The MRS score correlated highly with an independent global rating, and with scores of two other mania rating scales administered concurrently. The score also correlated with the number of days of subsequent stay in hospital. It was able to differentiate statistically patients before and after two weeks of treatment and to distinguish levels of severity based on the global rating.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) for non-psychotic disorders in children and adolescents: A review of the randomized controlled studies
TL;DR: Findings suggest that the choice of a specific treatment should be guided primarily by the safety profile of specific antipsychotics, considering specific risk factors for the single patient.
Journal ArticleDOI
Deficits on a Probabilistic Response-Reversal Task in Patients With Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Tristan Gorrindo,R.J.R. Blair,Salima Budhani,Daniel P. Dickstein,Daniel S. Pine,Ellen Leibenluft +5 more
TL;DR: Children with bipolar disorder may have a reversal learning deficit, and patients made more errors during probabilistic reversal, took longer to learn the new reward object, and were less likely to meet the learning criterion.
Journal ArticleDOI
Early onset of lithium prophylaxis as a predictor of good long-term outcome.
TL;DR: Results indicated that beginning lithium therapy within the first ten years of illness predicts better preventive outcomes than beginning prophylaxis later, both in major depression, recurrent and bipolar patients.
Journal ArticleDOI
Validation of the Bech-Rafaelsen Melancholia Scale and the Hamilton Depression Scale in patients with major depression; is the total score a valid measure of illness severity?
TL;DR: Evaluation of antidepressant drug efficacy requires adequate rating scales for measuring the severity of depression, but to measure the illness severity by such a total score, the scale needs to fulfil criteria of unidimensionality.
Journal ArticleDOI
The World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
TL;DR: An overview of the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative is presented, recognizing that WMH is not definitive, and insights from this round of surveys are being used to carry out methodological studies aimed at improving the quality of future investigations.
References
More filters
Book
Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
Journal ArticleDOI
A rating scale for depression
TL;DR: The present scale has been devised for use only on patients already diagnosed as suffering from affective disorder of depressive type, used for quantifying the results of an interview, and its value depends entirely on the skill of the interviewer in eliciting the necessary information.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
John E. Overall,Donald R. Gorham +1 more
TL;DR: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BRS) as mentioned in this paper was developed to provide a rapid assessment technique particularly suited to the evaluation of patient change, and it is recommended for use where efficiency, speed, and economy are important considerations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research.
John P. Feighner,Eli Robins,Samuel B. Guze,Robert A. Woodruff,George Winokur,Rodrigo A. Munoz +5 more
TL;DR: Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses along with the validating evidence for these diagnostic categories comes from workers outside the authors' group as well as from those within; it consists of studies of both outpatients and inpatients, of family studies, and of follow-up studies.