Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - Statistics & numerical data
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women.

29 Sep 2009 This study explored differences in defense use between a group of predominantly African American women diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD; n = 20) and a healthy control sample (n = 20), both from a primary care medical clinic. Patients ... Read more...

Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study.

29 Sep 2009 Personality and social support (SS) influence risk for depression and modify its outcome through multiple pathways. The impact of personality dimensions neuroticism and extraversion on SS among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) has been ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women. 29 Sep 2009
• Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study. 29 Sep 2009
• Susceptibility locus on chromosome 1q23-25 for a schizophrenia subtype resembling deficit schizophrenia identified by latent class analysis. 29 Sep 2009
• Complexities in clarifying the diagnostic criteria for anabolic-androgenic steroid dependence. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 30 Aug 2009
• The intolerance of uncertainty scale for children: a psychometric evaluation. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of a new self-report measure of parental attributions. 30 Aug 2009
• Developing a measure of sluggish cognitive tempo for children: content validity, factor structure, and reliability. 30 Aug 2009
• Diagnostic accuracy of Spanish language depression-screening instruments. 30 Aug 2009
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• Insomnia, depression, and physical disorders in late life: a 2-year longitudinal community study in Koreans. 30 Aug 2009
• Suicide attempts, gender, and sexual abuse: data from the 2000 British Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. 30 Aug 2009
• Rumination and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2009
• The challenges of ecological validity in the measurement of social perception in schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of the Hamilton depression rating scale (5 items) for manic and mixed bipolar disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Specificities of defense mechanisms in bipolar affective disorder: relations with symptoms and therapeutic alliance. 30 Aug 2009
• The interplay of perceived social support and posttraumatic psychological distress following orofacial injury. 30 Aug 2009
• Detecting depressive and anxiety disorders in distressed patients in primary care; comparative diagnostic accuracy of the Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). 21 Aug 2009
• Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling. 17 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychiatric Status Rating Scales'

Definition: Standardized procedures utilizing rating scales or interview schedules carried out by health personnel for evaluating the degree of mental illness.

Descriptor UI: D011569

Alternative terms: Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Lorr's Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Rating Scale; Katz Adjustment Scales; Adjustment Scales, Katz; Scales, Katz Adjustment; Wittenborn Scales; Scales, Wittenborn; Factor Construct Rating Scales (FCRS);

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.586;

Online Note: use PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES to search KATZ ADJUSTMENT SCALES 1975-96, LORR'S INPATIENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE 1975-91, WITTENBORN SCALES 1979-91, WITTENBORN SCALE 1969-78, & FACTOR CONSTRUCT RATING SCALES 1973-78

History Note: 69; KATZ ADJUSTMENT SCALES was heading 1975-96 (see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1975-90); WITTENBORN SCALES was heading 1979-91 (see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1979-90), was WITTENBORN SCALE see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1969-78; LORR'S INPATIENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE was heading 1975-91 (see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1975-90); FACTOR CONSTRUCT RATING SCALES was see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1973-78

Technical Notes: DF: PSR SCALES