[Adaptation of the clinician-administered rating scale for mania].
BACKGROUND
There is no mania rating scale properly adapted in Spain, and it's a true problem in research.


METHODS
The adaptation process has been the following one: The authors start from CARS-M of Altman et al. First the carry out the translation and back translation which was revised by the author of the scale. Then they fullfill some previous training with video filming and lastly they apply the scale to a group of 24 patients.


RESULTS
The Clinician-Administered Rating Scale for Mania (CARS-M) shows good psychometric proprieties among those its internal consistency of the scale, the interobservers reliability, and the item-total correlation. These results are lightly worse in the psychoticism sub-scale.


CONCLUSIONS
This rating scale for mania show itself as a useful instrument in clinic and research.
Livianos
L
L
Hospital La Fe, Valencia. lorenzo.livianos@uv.es
Rojo
L
L
Guillem
J L
JL
Villavicencio
D
D
Pino
A
A
Mora
R
R
Vila
M L
ML
Domínguez
A
A
D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results