Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry.
SCAN
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
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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)
- 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.
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