Mental Status Schedule

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Problem THE DEVELOPMENT of adequate criterion measures for identifying cases of mental disorder to which social and cultural factors can then be related is a continuing and crucial methodological problem. The Mental Status Schedule, a relatively new instrument, was constructed to improve the research value of clinical judgments based on data collected during a psychiatric interview. Two of the authors have reported on this instrument's reliability and validity.13This paper describes the use of this instrument to detect differences in the amount and kind of psychopathology in a sample of urban New York and rural Kentucky hospitalized schizophrenics. A future paper will examine what social-cultural factors may be related to observed differences between the two groups. Mental Status Schedule The Mental Status Schedule (MSS) contains an interview schedule and a matching inventory of 248 dichotomous items descriptive of small units of pathological behavior (see Table

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