Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale.
CPRS
- What it measures
- Broadband clinician-rated severity of psychiatric signs and symptoms (reported symptoms + observed behaviour) usable in full or as an item pool for syndrome subscales (e.g. MADRS depression, BAS anxiety)
- Length and format
- 65 (40 reported + 25 observed items). 4-point severity per item (with half-point steps; 0-3); clinician interview/observation (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- Several incl. EN (1978), and other European languages; Swedish origin
- 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
- Asberg, M., et al. (1978). A comprehensive psychopathological rating scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 58(s271), 5-27.
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