MSE

Question 1

APPEARANCE

Answer 1

Age, sex, ethnicity, attire, clothes appropriate? cleanliness, grooming, bring anything?

Question 2

BEHAVIOUR

Answer 2

Rapport: overfamiliar? hostile? eye contact? psychomotor retardation? distractable, concentration?

Question 3

SPEECH

Answer 3

Volume, rate, tone, pressure, flight of ideas, rhythm or melody.

Question 4

MOOD - climate

Answer 4

objective: how interviewer describes them
Subjective: in their own words

Question 5

AFFECT- weather

Answer 5

how patient responds to emotional changes. labile is inappropriate laughing or crying.

Question 6

THOUGHT FORM

Answer 6

was the conversation direct? clear? loosening of associations? knights move? word salad?

Question 7

THOUGHT CONTENT

Answer 7

was it about hallucinations? delusions? thought withdrawal or interference?

Question 8

PERSCEPTION

Answer 8

hallucinations- discuss what they were

any they percieving anything abnormal?

Question 9

INSIGHT

Answer 9

are you unwell?

do you want treatment?

Question 10

RISK

Answer 10

self: suicide or self harm
Others: children? public?
self neglect? medication?

Question 11

COGNITION

Answer 11

orientation of time, place and person

Question 12

ASMTTPI RC

Answer 12

Appearnace + behaviour
Speech
Mood + affect
thought form
thought content
Perception
Inisight
Risk
cognition