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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Overall and Gorham Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
  • Overall Gorham Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
  • Overall-Gorham Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Scope note

  • A scale comprising 18 symptom constructs chosen to represent relatively independent dimensions of manifest psychopathology. The initial intended use was to provide more efficient assessment of treatment response in clinical psychopharmacology research; however, the scale was readily adapted to other uses. (From Hersen, M. and Bellack, A.S., Dictionary of Behavioral Assessment Techniques, p. 87)

History note

  • 95; OVERALL AND GORHAM BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE was heading 1975-94 (see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1975-90)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010054

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