Birchwood Insight Scale.

BIS

What it measures

Self-reported clinical insight in psychosis on three dimensions - awareness of illness, perceived need for treatment, and relabelling of psychotic experiences as pathological

Length and format

8 (~unverified). 3-pt response (agree / unsure / disagree), half the items reverse-keyed (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

15+ langs (FR, ES, IT, PT, NL, DE, NO, TR, ZH, FA among them; approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Birchwood, M., Smith, J., Drury, V., Healy, J., Macmillan, F., & Slade, M. (1994). A self-report Insight Scale for psychosis: reliability, validity and sensitivity to change. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 89(1), 62-67.