@article{ref1,
title="A self-administered instrument to measure psychiatric discomfort of persons with serious mental illness",
journal="Psychiatric services",
year="1999",
author="Betemps, E. J.",
volume="50",
number="1",
pages="107-108",
abstract="The author describes the development and evaluation of the Psychiatric Discomfort Scale, a self-report instrument that provides a quantitative measurement of patients' discomfort with psychiatric symptoms that change over time. Initially, a 60-item instrument was evaluated with 55 psychiatric inpatients in a Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center and a comparison group of 71 medical outpatients in the VA system. It was revised and tested again with 292 outpatients in treatment for psychosis. The resulting 23-item instrument was found to be internally consistent and responsive to changes in a patient's condition over time.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1075-2730",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}