The development and use of a standardized assessment of abnormal personality

Mann, Anthony; Jenkins, Rachel; Cutting, John; Cowen, Philip J.

doi:10.1017/s0033291700041337

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“…The SAPAS and its translation: The SAPAS introduced by Moran et al [16] was itself derived from the opening section of the informant-based Standardized Assessment of Personality (SAP) [57], which includes 8 probe items and provides a total score for the screening of PDs ranging from 0 to 8 (see appendix). It was originally written in English and the following procedure was used to translate it into French.…”

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Adaptation and Validation of the Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale as a Self-Administered Screening Test (SA-SAPAS)

Merlhiot¹

2014

J Psychol Psychother

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Personality disorder assessments are time-intensive and require trained interviewers. They are unlikely to be performed on a routine basis. In clinical and general populations, there is a requirement for short and robust self-administered screening tests for personality disorders. We first translated the original form of the SAPAS into French and validated it in a clinical sample (n=28). This adaptation revealed properties similar to those of the original version. The first and second studies validated the adaptation of the SA-SAPAS as a self-administered questionnaire in clinical (n=45) and general (n=186) populations. We were able to use the same cut-off (score ≥ 2) in both the clinical and general populations and this permitted correct identification in 89% of the clinical subjects (sensitivity of 97.3%; specificity of 50%) and 86% in the general population (sensitivity of 87.5%; specificity of 85.7%). These results suggest possible applications for researchers and clinicians, either as a routine screening test or as a selection tool in both general and clinical populations.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Adaptation and Validation of the Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale as a Self-Administered Screening Test (SA-SAPAS)

Merlhiot¹

2014

J Psychol Psychother

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“…Under such circumstances it may be preferable to use an informant rated personality assessment (e.g. the Standardized Assessment of Personality; Mann, Jenkins, Cutting, & Cowen, 1981), or one based on documentary information (Tyrer et al, 2007).…”

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Personality disorder and outcome in schizophrenia: A negative systematic review

Newton‐Howes¹,

Tyrer²,

Moore³

et al. 2007

Personality & Mental Health

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“…The Standardized Assessment of Personality is a brief semi-structured interview with an informant that can be conducted face-to-face or by telephone [15] . The informant should have known the patient for at least five years.…”

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“…The original SAPAS consists of eight dichotomously rated items, which the original authors had taken from the opening section of the informant-based semi-structured interview, the Standardised Assessment of Personality [15,31] . Scores on the SAPAS ranged from 0 to 8.…”

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Validation of two informant-based screening instruments for personality disorders in a psychiatric outpatient population

Heck

Hodiamont

Elshoff

et al. 2013

JHA

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Purpose: The predictive validity of two informant-based screening instruments for personality disorders (PDs), the Standardized Assessment of Personality (SAP) and a short eight-item version (SAPAS-INF), were studied in 103 Dutch psychiatric outpatients, using the SCID-II as the 'gold standard'.Methods: All patients and their informants were interviewed separately and independently by different interviewers who were unaware of the results in the other conditions.Results: According to the SCID-II, 66 patients had at least one personality disorder (PD). The SAP correctly classified 72% of all participants in the category PD present/absent. The sensitivity and specificity were 69% and 76%, respectively. The positive and negative predictive values were 84% and 58%. The SAPAS-INF, using a cut-off score of 3, correctly classified 70%; the sensitivity and specificity were 76% and 58%, respectively. The positive and the negative predictive values were 77% and 57%. Conclusion:These results show that the informant-based SAP as well as the shorter informant-based SAPAS-INF are adequate; though rather moderate screening instruments for identifying PD. The SAP and the SAPAS-INF, however, both performed worse than the SAPAS-SR, which is based on the patient's self-report. Therefore, it is concluded that the SAP or the SAPAS-INF can be used as a satisfactory screening instruments for the presence/absence of PD in those cases where patients themselves are unable to provide the required information.

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The development and use of a standardized assessment of abnormal personality

Cited by 182 publications

References 22 publications

Adaptation and Validation of the Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale as a Self-Administered Screening Test (SA-SAPAS)

Adaptation and Validation of the Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale as a Self-Administered Screening Test (SA-SAPAS)

Personality disorder and outcome in schizophrenia: A negative systematic review

Validation of two informant-based screening instruments for personality disorders in a psychiatric outpatient population

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