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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS),
a rating scale for assessing psychopathology on the basis of a small number of items, usually 16 to 24, encompassing psychosis, depression, and anxiety symptoms.


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Inter- and intra-rater reliability of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.
The 24-item, expanded version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Ventura, Green, Shaner, & Liberman, 1993) was administered at the baseline assessment for evaluating participants' psychopathology during the 2 weeks prior to study entry.
Hooten, Lyketsos, and Mollenhauer (1998) proposed a cutoff score of 39 on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Overall & Gorham, 1962) as an appropriate predictor for non-suicidal patients presenting at a psychiatric emergency department.
 
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