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Clinical: broadband and severity

Prodromal Questionnaire-Brief.

PQ-B

What it measures
Brief self-report psychosis-risk screen (positive attenuated symptoms) + distress
Length and format
21 items. yes/no endorsement + 5-point distress for endorsed items, past month (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many incl. ES, ZH (HK & simplified), AR, EU (Basque), PT
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
Loewy, R.L., et al. (2011). Psychosis risk screening with the Prodromal Questionnaire-Brief version (PQ-B). Schizophrenia Research, 129(1), 42-46.

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