title: Development and application of the mania rating guide (MRG).
abstract: In this article we present the development and application of the Mania Rating Guide (MRG), a semi-structured interview. This guide was created in order to assist the filling of three mania Scales: Mania Rating Scale, Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale and Clinician-Administered Rating Scale for Mania. The MRG consists of twenty-one Psychopathological Dimensions, that correspond to the Items of the original Scales, and are structured in Questions. The guide was applied to fifteen manic patients admitted in the Psychiatric Unit of the Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre. A psychiatrist interviewed them using the MRG, and the interviews were videotaped. Afterwards, three independent raters scored the Mania scales based on the films. The impression of the raters was that the MRG allows not only to easily score all the Items of the Scales but also to cover the wide spectrum of the symptomatological presentation of a manic syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Biochemistry and of Psychiatric and Forensic Medicine of the Federal University of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Flávio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shansis
authors.forename: Eugênio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grevet
authors.forename: Betina
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mattevi
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berlim
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maldonado
authors.forename: Aida
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santin
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fleck
authors.forename: Iván
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Izquierdo
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales