title: [An examination of the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric subjects].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms (SBPS) to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred and six cases with different types of psychiatric problems were tested by SBPS. All cases were separately evaluated by two experts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About 34.5% cases (71/206) were classified as malingering by the cut-off 13 scores of SBPS. Compared with expert's evaluation, SBPS showed a false negative rate of 19.8% and a false positive rate of 1.7%, respectively, with a total accuracy rate of 90.8%. Cases involved in compensations including working injury and traffic accidence showed the highest rate of malingering (51%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SBPS is useful for detecting malingering psychopathological symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Psychiatric Institute of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen 518020, China. blgao@21cn.com
authors.forename: Bei-ling
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Zhi-biao
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Dong-ling
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shu-ming
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Wei-de
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Xue-wu
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008014:Lie Detection; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014836:Volition; D055815:Young Adult