The comprehensive psychopathological rating scale (CPRS): communicability to, and inter-rater reliability among untrained raters.
Twenty-six, respectively twenty-three untrained Italian doctors participated in the rating of two patients with a preliminary Italian version of the CPRS. Despite an unfavourable setting, and some linguistic inaccuracies in the translation, a quite satisfactory degree of agreement was reached among the doctors. The Italian version of the CPRS has now been rewritten using a terminology more familiar to Italian psychiatrists.
D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales