title: Using the brief symptom inventory to profile monolingual Spanish-speaking psychiatric outpatients.
abstract: As part of a larger study (Acosta, Evans, Hurwicz, & Yamamoto, 1987), a translated version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) was given to 153 monolingual Spanish-speaking psychiatric outpatients in the Los Angeles area. The raw mean scores on the nine primary symptom dimensions and the Global Severity Index (GSI) of the Spanish-speaking population were compared with the published raw mean scores of a normative sample of English-speaking psychiatric outpatients. Results suggested that the Spanish-speaking population had higher symptom levels on several dimensions and the GSI. It was suggested that the BSI could be a potentially useful instrument for self-reported psychiatric symptomatology among the Spanish-speaking population if an appropriate translation of the BSI were used.
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033-1071.
authors: F X
authors: FX
authors: Acosta
authors: L H
authors: LH
authors: Nguyen
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating; D014505:Urban Population