[The Spanish version of the Manchester Nurse Rating Scales].
BACKGROUND
There is no Nursing-staff Mania Rating Scale adapted to the Spanish language. The present work is the result of the adaptation we have carried out.


METHODS
The scale has been translated and the back-translation compared with the original version. It has been applied on 670 occasions to a sample of 59 patients. Simultaneously the patients were rated with the Manic Interpersonal Interaction Scale, two versions of the Visual Analogue Scale and the Numeric Rating Scale.


RESULTS
The coefficient Alpha of Cronbach is 0.94. The interrater's correlation coefficient for the total of the scale is 0.84. The factorial analysis gives a single factor that explains 65% of the variance. The Area under the ROC Curve is 0,87.


CONCLUSIONS
The scale shows excellent psychometric properties, with great homogeneity of the scale items and good discriminate properties between bipolar patient and those affected by other psychoses.
Livianos Aldana
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Unidad Docente de Psiquiatría y Psicología Médica (Universidad de Valencia) y Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
Rojo Moreno
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Teruel Davó
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Andreu Lledó
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Abad Pérez
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Navarro García
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D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007802:Language; D009729:Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires