1990
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1014514
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The Development of an Observer-Scale for Measuring Social Dysfunction and Aggression

Abstract: Scales for measuring aggressive cognitions and behaviour have mainly been administered by nursing-staff or been self-ratings. During recent years we have made an attempt to construct an observer-scale for aggression analogous to the Hamilton scale for depression. The Social Dysfunction and Aggression Scale (SDAS) consists of 9 items (SDAS-9) covering outward aggression and 2 items (SDAS-2) covering inward aggression. The inter-observer reliability of the SDAS has been found adequate in terms of intra-class coe… Show more

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“…The Social Dysfunction and Aggression Scale (SDAS-11) was used as an observation scale to document a nurse's overall impression of a patient's aggressive behaviour during a certain time period (Wistedt et al, 1990). The total score ranges from 0 to 44 (higher scores representing more severe aggressive behaviour).…”
Section: Primary Outcome Measuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Social Dysfunction and Aggression Scale (SDAS-11) was used as an observation scale to document a nurse's overall impression of a patient's aggressive behaviour during a certain time period (Wistedt et al, 1990). The total score ranges from 0 to 44 (higher scores representing more severe aggressive behaviour).…”
Section: Primary Outcome Measuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The descriptions were assembled by Oud [2001] on the basis of several recognised sources, OAS [Silver and Yudofsky, 1991;Yudofsky, 1986] and MOAS [Kay et al, 1988] in particular, and other information on definitions of aggression [e.g., Broers and de Lange, 1996;Nijman et al, 1999;Palmstierna and Wistedt, 1987;Pasmans, 1995;van de Werf and Staverman, 1999;Wistedt et al, 1990].…”
Section: The Popasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The music therapists also rated the scores of the patient on the Dutch Social Dysfunction and Aggression Scale: the "SDAS" (Wistedt et al, 1990) with Dutch forensic psychiatric patients as a normgroup (Nijman et al, 1999). This rating took place after the second session of the musical assessment program was completed.…”
Section: Outcome Measures (Tests)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They had to use their observations of the last two weeks. The SDAS (Wistedt et al, 1990) was scored by sociotherapists during four consecutive weeks, starting two weeks before the start of the first music therapy observation (for validation reasons of this score form).…”
Section: Outcome Measures (Tests)mentioning
confidence: 99%