Clinical assessment scales for biological psychiatry to be used in WHO studies

Bech, Per; Gastpar, Markus; Morozov, P. V.

doi:10.1016/0278-5846(84)90152-0

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“…Rapport and perceived value are indeed necessary in both research and practitioner settings (240, 241). ‘Too often questionnaires are handed to the patient in an offhand manner which conveys the message that its completion is not a serious matter’[(242), p. 18].…”

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A staging approach to measuring patient‐centred subjective outcomes*

Bilsbury

Richman

2002

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Introduction: In assessing clinical change, measurement is often based on psychometric scales. However, change is best revealed within the constellation of problems salient to the patient, rather than in alterations in the abstract constructs, psychometrically measured. These patients' problems often serially unfold in qualitative stages, even before the full‐blown disorder emerges. These qualitative stages constitute the natural history extending from early to late, fluctuating from mild to severe, and progressing from full‐blown disorder to recovery. Method: We reviewed the literature on clinimetrics and patient‐centred subjective measures, and related these findings to the use of the discretized‐analogue scaling method. Results: There is increasing recognition of clinimetric approaches that structure the pre‐clinical and clinical material into a scale that reflects the symptoms, consequences and complications in a manner understandable to the patient, and enabling the quantification of severity or change. This monograph provides criteria and methods for developing these building blocks that enable the assessment of severity, stage or change. We show examples of their use in quantitative clinical outcome measurement. Conclusion: We encourage further studies in the ideology and procedures for measuring clinical change in terms of personally subjective experiences.

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“…Practitioners are confronted with poorly defined disorders and vague symptoms (240); a ‘kaleidoscopic conglomerate of symptoms of varied distinctness and duration’[(251), p. 304]. They cannot, like researchers, repose in the fidelity of the strictly defined criteria used in clinical trials.…”

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A staging approach to measuring patient‐centred subjective outcomes*

Bilsbury

Richman

2002

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…The scales have been translated to several languages and have both been included in the WHO collection of rating scales for biological psychiatry and for geriatric psychiatry (5,6).…”

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The Mania and Melancholia Scales

Gjerris

Bech

Rafaelsen

1986

Nordisk Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift

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Gjerris A, Bech P, Rafaelsen 0. J . The mania and melancholia scales. Nord Psykiatr Tidsskr 1986; 40: 117-118. Oslo. lSSN 0029-1455. Overlrege dr. med. Per Bech, Frederrksborg amts centralsygehus, psykiatrkk afd. P. DK-3400 Hillerad. Akseptdato: 20.10.85 SUPPI 295,44: 1-101, SUPPI. 326, 73: 1-37. Nord J Psychiatry Downloaded from informahealthcare.com by McMaster University on 11/04/14 For personal use only.

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