[An examination of the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric subjects].
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.
Gao
Bei-ling
BL
Forensic Psychiatric Institute of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen 518020, China. blgao@21cn.com
Huang
Zhi-biao
ZB
Wu
Dong-ling
DL
Ding
Shu-ming
SM
Liang
Wei-de
WD
Li
Xue-wu
XW
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