An abbreviated form of the Phillips Rating Scale of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia.

Abstract

An abbreviated form of the original five-section Phillips Rating Scale of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia, consisting of Part I, Abbreviated Scale of Premorbid Sexual Adjustment in Schizophrenia and Part II, Abbreviated Scale of Premorbid Personal-Social Adjustment, has been developed, utilizing a 7-point scale (0-6) for each part. Advantages of the Abbreviated Scale, for which adequate interrater reliability and validity have been demonstrated, are brevity, economy of time and effort, reduction of redundancy and overlap among items of different sections of the original scale, and elimination of detail for which information is minimal or highly variable (e.g., most recent history in multiple admissions) in the typical case history folder. Cross-cultural samples and validation based on measures of hospitalization are included in the analysed.The Phillips Rating Scale of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia (Phillips, 1953) has been shown to be effective in differentiating the performance of subgroups of schizophrenic patients in a variety of experimental studies conducted during the past two decades (Garmezy, 196S; Garmezy & Rodnick, 19S9; Rodnick & Garmezy, 19S7). While acknowledging the usefulness of the instrument, investigators who have relied on the PhillipsThe author acknowledges with appreciation the significant contribution of Leslie Phillips, and in presenting the Abbreviated Scales, reconfirms, two decades later, the value of the original work. Appreciation is expressed also to Sidney Steinberg, a student in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky at the time the first abbreviated scale was formulated and the preliminary collection of data was completed;

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