Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry.

SCAN

What it measures

Comprehensive clinician diagnostic assessment across adult psychopathology (mood, anxiety, psychotic, substance-use, somatoform, eating and cognitive disorders); built around the Present State Examination (PSE-10) as its core section, plus an Item Group Checklist and a Clinical History Schedule

Length and format

Semi-structured schedule of ~28 sections built around PSE-10; effective item count varies with branching (approx, unverified). clinician semi-structured interview with graded 0-3 severity ratings, scored by the CATEGO-5 / SCAN diagnostic algorithm (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

25+ langs via WHO-coordinated translation programme (ES, FR, DE, IT, NL, DA, TR, ZH, HI, RU 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

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Wing, J.K., Babor, T., Brugha, T., et al. (1990). SCAN: Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry. Archives of General Psychiatry, 47(6), 589-593.