Performance-based tests of functional capacity are important to utilize in schizophrenia where global measures may underestimate community functioning in the context of impoverished environments and disincentives to return to work. The Test of Adaptive Behavior in Schizophrenia (TABS) is a performance-based measure of adaptive functioning designed to address limitations of other available measu...

AIM Construction of a brief, self-rating questionnaire of insight into schizophrenia, that can be useful in everyday practice. METHOD The questionnaire is based on reports of patients with good remissions, confronted with the group interviews with severely psychotic patients without insight. They led to the formulation of 16 questions with three possible answers reflecting lack of insight, fu...

Objective: This article reports findings of three studies addressing convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Youth Rating Scale of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale–Second Edition (BERS-2). Method: Pearson product–moment correlations were used in all three studies, the first two addressing convergent validity and the third addressing test-retest reliability. Results: Anal...

OBJECTIVE To assess the internal validity and reliability of a multisource feedback (MSF) program by China Medical Board for resident physicians in China. METHOD Multisource feedback was used to assess professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills. 258 resident physicians were assessed by attending doctors, self-evaluation, resident peers, nurses, office staffs, and patients who com...

introduction: parents are such important members of the cochlear-implant team that analysis of their views is essential in orderto improve services and outcomes. the authors developed a tool to assess parental attitudes towards various aspects of cochlear implantation in children who had passed aural rehabilitation sessions. the authors then went on to determine the validity and reliability of ...

The purpose of this study was to validate the GEOPTE scale social cognition for its use in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia Latin American countries. participants were 253 a diagnosis Schizophrenia and main caregivers from mental health services Bolivia, Chile, Peru. psychometric properties obtained through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), CFA-multigroup, reliability coefficients Pearso...

The six competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education include the lifelong learning skills of evidence-based medicine (EBM)/information mastery. We developed and tested an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) station that would measure these skills in family medicine residents. This EBM OSCE station is a 30-minute station within a regular OSCE exam. It use...

Diminished expression is a diagnostic feature of a range of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders/conditions and is often unresponsive to treatment, is present across premorbid, first episode and various clinical states, and is considered a poor prognostic indicator. Surprisingly, little is known about diminished expression. The present study sought to address this issue by evaluating a commercially...

To compare schizophrenia-specific quality of life measures, this study examined an 18-item Chinese version of 41-item Quality of Life Questionnaire in Schizophrenia (S-QoL; S-QoL-18-C) using 41 patients. The S-QoL-18-C was validated and compared with Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale-Revision 4 (SQLS-R4). Index scores of S-QoL-18-C showed nearly identical psychometrics to S-QoL-C and S-QoL-18...