title: Reliability and validity of the functional assessment rating scale.
abstract: The Functional Assessment Rating Scale was developed as a measure of psychiatric symptomatology and psychosocial impairments. This study was designed to report estimates of reliability and validity with a population of schizophrenic patients. The scale showed very good interrater agreement, test-retest reliability, construct validity, and concurrent validity, so the scale seems a useful measure of psychopathology which may be used to assess and monitor patients displaying severe mental illnesses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling, College of Health Professions, Idaho State University, USA.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index