title: [The use of the brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS) by overall and gorham for the diagnosis of acute paranoid psychoses: evaluation of a german translation of the BPRS (author's transl)].
abstract: A German translation of Overall and Gorham's "Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale" (BPRS) has been used to select patients with acute paranoid psychoses for a drug trial and to evaluate the results of the treatment. The BPRS proved very useful in screening, and as a reliable method to judge the global therapeutic outcome. The total score showed a high degree of interrater reliability; it also reflected a marked decrease of psychopathological symptoms at the end of the trial. Interrater correlation coefficients were lower than 0.7 in 9/16 items. This may be due to the somewhat unprecise and ambigous formulation of several items. The average BPRS profile of patients with "paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia" were similar to those published by French authors for the corresponding diagnosis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005860:Germany, West; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008152:Loxapine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D006220:Haloperidol; D008152:Loxapine
vernacular_title: Die Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) von Overall und Gorham bei akuten paranoid-halluzinatorischen Psychosen. Untersuchungen zu einer deutschen Ubersetzung der BPRS