A Police Service Rating Scale

A rating scale for depression.

Inappropriate rating scale.

[email protected] Editor – We read with interest the study by Chan et al into the effect of needling HT7 on psychological stress in hospice staff. We agree that stress in hospice staff is an important problem and that a simple effective treatment would be useful. However, although Chan et al aimed to measure reductions in psychological stress, we feel that the outcome measure they chose wa...

A psychiatric rating scale for schizophrenia in Singapore (Woodbridge Hospital rating scale for schizophrenia).

This scale is constructed to meet the need for an efficient, rapid and economical method of measuring change in schizophrenic patients during the course of psychotropic medication (drug trial) in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual population of low educational level. Items are included only if (1) they can be elicited objectively, (2) they are important symptoms of schizophrenia and (3) they are f...

Developing a rating scale for projected stories.

The Six-part Story Method (6PSM) is a projective tool in wide use by dramatherapists in the UK, USA and Israel (Lahad & Ayalon, 1993). In contrast to projective tests used by psychotherapists and psychologists, the 6PSM has never been the subject of any validation or reliability studies. This study reports on the identification of scale items to describe the manifest content of six-part stories...

A new, female-specific irritability rating scale.

OBJECTIVE Irritability is a prominent symptom in the spectrum of female-specific mood disorders, and in some women, irritability is serious enough to disrupt their lives and warrant treatment. The objective of this research was to develop a new, female-specific state measure of irritability. METHODS We constructed self-rating and observer rating scales using items derived from spontaneous des...