Inter-rater Reliability of the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
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The study of Andreascn (1982) as Mathai et al (1984) utilised schizophrenics hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals and employed DSM-II1 (APA 1980) criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Therefore, it was felt that the investigation of inter-rater reliability of SANS in ambulatory schizophrenics attending a psychiatric unit of a general hospital diagnosed so according to criteria different from DSM-III (APA 1980) will enhance the credibility of this scale further.
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