The primary outcomes were symptom severity assessed by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and cognitive functioning measured by the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS).

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the factor structure of Bech's version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), translated into Portuguese. The BPRS was administered to a ...

Your total rating -- all 24 items added up -- isn’t as important as how you rank for different clusters of symptoms. The doctor may look at your combined rating for depression, anxiety ...

Schizophrenia participants experienced a 32% reduction in Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores (p < 0.02). Common side effects of the KD, such as headache, fatigue, and constipation, were ...

In psychiatric measurements, participants with schizophrenia showed a 32 % reduction in Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores. Overall Clinical Global Impression (CGI) severity improved by an average ...

The first seven cover positive symptoms, including: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is one of the most common tests that psychiatrists use when they want to check how severe someone's ...

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is a useful tool for measuring the severity of psychopathological symptoms among patients with psychosis. Many studies, predominantly in Western countries, ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: the aim was to study psychometric properties of the Perceived Global Distress Scale (PGD) for peo- ple with severe mental illness, mainly with schizophrenia disorders. Methods: ...

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was an effective tool for measuring general and specific psychiatric symptoms across the diagnostic spectrum, based on data from 600 psychiatric inpatients.

The home treatment group had a significantly higher total mean item score on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) at baseline (2.23 vs 2.04, P = .04). Results at 6 weeks showed the number of ...