A cross-cultural study of the reliability and factorial dimensions of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS).
The factor-structure and the reliability of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was investigated in a group of short stay psychiatric patients in a Dutch university clinic. It was found that the BPRS has a good inter-rater reliability. With the exception of a new Disorientation subscale all original five subscales could be replicated when compared with an American study.
D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009426:Netherlands; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014481:United States