Ward rating scales for long-stay patients: a review
- 1 May 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 10 (2) , 277-288
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700044032
Abstract
SYNOPSIS: Twenty-nine published ward rating scales for long-stay psychiatric patients are reviewed according to a standard set of criteria. Attention is paid to details of the rating setting, the rating procedure, and scale construction and evaluation, and some detailed recommendations are made. Only 4 scales meet a subset of 5 minimal criteria.Keywords
This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
- Assessment Procedures Used in Studies on Long-Stay PatientsThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1979
- Simple behaviour rating scales for maximum security patients: Development and validation*British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1978
- A Controlled Trial of Fluphenazine Enanthate in Hospitalized Chronic SchizophrenicsThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968
- Lumbar Air Encephalography in Chronic Schizophrenia: A Controlled ExperimentThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1966
- Experience with Thioridazine (“Melleril”) TherapyJournal of Mental Science, 1961
- A Short Scale for Rating Paranoid SchizophreniaJournal of Mental Science, 1959
- Combined Treatment with Chlorpromazine and ReserpineJournal of Mental Science, 1957
- A Short Scale for Rating “Activity-Withdrawal” in SchizophrenicsJournal of Mental Science, 1957
- Deteriorated Psychotic Patients—Their Treatment and its AssessmentJournal of Mental Science, 1956
- An objective method of evaluating mental statusJournal of Clinical Psychology, 1951