TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - A self-administered instrument to measure psychiatric discomfort of persons with serious mental illness
JO  - Psychiatric services
A1  - Betemps, E. J.
SP  - 107
EP  - 108
VL  - 50
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1075-2730
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -