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Brief Symptom Inventory

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Brief Symptom Inventory,
n.pr a short (53-question) test used to assess the patterns of symptoms in those undergoing psychiatric or medical treatment. Useful for initial patient evaluation, clinical situations of patient debilitation, outpatient clinics, and in measuring the progress of treatment.


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The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)-a composite index of 53 items, each of which is measured on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely)-was used as a measure of mental health; an increased BSI score signifies greater emotional distress.
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The Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis, 1984), the fourth questionnaire, is a shortened form of the Symptom Checklist--90-R (SCL-90-R) and was used for our purposes to measure tendencies of somatization (SOM), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression (DEP), anxiety (ANX), as well as the unrelated disorders hostility (HOS), interpersonal sensitivity (IS), paranoid ideation (PI), and psychoticism (PSY), which in our study served to establish discriminant validity.
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