Thalbourne Michael A, Houran James
Department of Psychology, Adelaide University, Australia.
Psychol Rep. 2002 Jun;90(3 Pt 1):817-20. doi: 10.2466/pr0.2002.90.3.817.
The 18-item Manic-Depressiveness Scale was revised via a Rasch top-down purification' procedure to provide a new 12-item scale with no significant age or sex bias. Application of this scale to previously collected data indicated that patients with manic-depression and schizophrenia receive comparable scores, which are significantly higher than those of a control group of students. Moreover, for a subgroup of patients with manic-depression, scores correlated .55 (p<.001) with number of manic-depression-relevant medications being taken. These findings lend support to the validity of the Rasch Manic-Depressiveness Scale as a general measure of psychoticism and psychiatric status.
通过拉施自上而下的净化程序对18项躁郁症量表进行了修订，以提供一个新的12项量表，该量表不存在显著的年龄或性别偏差。将此量表应用于先前收集的数据表明，躁郁症患者和精神分裂症患者的得分相当，且显著高于学生对照组。此外，对于躁郁症患者的一个亚组，得分与正在服用的与躁郁症相关药物的数量的相关性为0.55（p<0.001）。这些发现支持了拉施躁郁症量表作为精神病性和精神状态一般测量方法的有效性。
