Psych Rating Scale Flashcards
TRUE or FALSE: Psychiatric Rating Scales provides information is less comprehensie than in a routine clinical interview
FALSE. MORE COMPREHENSIVE
In measuring the psychiatric rating, whatare the issues to be considered? Give three
Format
Raters
Source of Info
TRUE or FALSE: The assessment of quality is based on biometrics
FALSE. PSYCHOMETRIC OR MIND-MEASURING
In the assessment of rating scales, this is the consistency or repeatability of ratings.
Reliability
This refers to conformity with truth. Gold standard that can stand for truth
Validity
What are the three standard ways to assess reliability?
Internal consistency
Interrater
Test-Retest
In this way of assessing reliability, agreement is assessed among the individual items in a measure
Internal consistency
Thi measures the reliability only to the extent that the subject’s true condition remains stable in the time interval.
Test-Retest
This is also called interjudge or joint reliability
Interrater
This is a measure of agreement between two or more observers evaluating the same subjects using the same information
Interrater
What are the issues in interpreting reliability data?
Nature of the sample
Training and experience of the raters
Test conditions
What are the divisions of validity assessment? (Give 3)
Face and content Validity
Criterion validity
Construct validity
This validity assessment is less focused on whether the items give the appearance of validity but ratherdescribes whether the measure provides good balaced coverage of the construct
Content validity
This is also called predictive or concurrent validity
Criterion validity
This refers to whether the items appear to assess the construct in question
Face validity
This validity is assessed when additional validity data are desired or when an adequate gold standard is not available
Construct validity
This is a variety of questionnares, interviews, checkliss, outcome assessments, and others for psychiatric practice, research and administration
Psychiatric Rating Scales
This measures disability along a number of parameters; self administered
WHODAS (WHO Disability Assessment Sched)
What are the parameters that measures disability?
Cognition
Interpersonal Relations
Work and Social Impairment
This psychiatric diagnosis begins with demographic info and clinical background
Structural Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID)
What are the 7 diagnostic groups?
Mood Psychotic Substance abuse Anxiety Somatic Eating Adjustment disorders
TRUE or FALSE: Formal training is required in SCID but training books or videos are not available to fcilitate this
FALSE. AVAILABLE ANG TRAINING BOOKS/VIDS
TRUE or FALSE: SCID is not recommended for use by lay interviewers
TRUE
This is developed in the late 1960s as a short scale for measuring the severity of psych symptomatoligy
BPRS (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale)
This covers thought disturbance, emotional withdrawal and retardation, anxiety and depression, and hostility and suspiciousness
BPRS
TRUE or FALSE: The reliability of BPRS depends on the raters experience
TRUE. The more experienced/trained, the reliability of BPRS is good to excellent
This is developed in the 1980s to remedy perceived deficits in the BPRS in the assessment of positive and negative symptoms
PANSS (Positive and negative Syndrome scale)
What is the standard tool for assessing clinical outcome in treatment studies of schizo and other psychottic disorders?
PANSS
These are detailed assessment of positive and negative symptoms of schizo
SAPS & SANS (scale for assessment of positive/negative symptoms)
TRUE or FALSE: SAPS and SANS are used strictly in tandem
FALSE. MAY BE USED SEPARATELY OR IN TANDEM
This assesses hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and thought disorder
SAPS
This assesses affective flattening, poverty of speech, apathy, anhedonia, and inattentiveness
SANS
What diagnostic is mainly used to monitor treatment effects in research?
SAPS and SANS
This is a diagnostic in mood disorder which monitors severity of majr depression
HAM-D (Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression)
Rates depression severity
BDI (Beck Depression Inventory)
What are the two main focus of dimensions in depression in BDI?
Behavioral and Cognitive dimension
What is the most commonly used bersion of HAM-D?
17-item Version
What is the current version of BDI?
Beck-II