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KMID : 0981420000020010015
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Schizophrenia Clinics
2000 Volume.2 No. 1 p.15 ~ p.40
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Rating Scales for the Evaluation of Schizophrenic Symptoms
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Lee Jung-Seo
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Abstract
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The use of psychiatric rating scales is the only way to translate the clinical features of mental disorders into objective and quantitative information. The information derived from rating scales is always limited to the area they are designed to cover. Therefore, when using a scale, we should know the characteristics inherent in it. Firstly, I mentioned some aspects which were considered to be important for the comparison of rating scales : resolution, sensitivity, simplicity and analysis. And then, I briefly described four general psychopathology rating scales and four schizophrenia-specific scales. As the former, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale(BPRS), the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale(CPRS), Arbeitsgemeinschaft fiir Methodik and Documentation in der Psychiatrie(AMDP-System) and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-change version(SADS-C) were selected, and as the latter, the Manchester Scale(MS), the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale-Schizophrenia Subscale(CPRS-schz), the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms(SANS)-Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms(SAPS) and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale(PANSS) were selected. Finally, I tried to compare these scales, though not well-grounded. Looking at the total scores of the general psychopathology rating scales, the BPRS is by far the best scale, followed by the SADS-C, the CPRS and the AMDP-system. In the schizophrenia-specific scales and general purpose scales useful for research in schizophrenia, it seemed that the BPRS is probably the best, and the nexts are the PANSS, the SANS-SAPS, the SADS-C, the MS and CPRS-schz by the order of rank.
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KEYWORD
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Psychiatric rating scale, Schizophrenia
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