Alamiri Bibi, Alenezi Hend Fm Fr, Naguy Ahmed
Alamiri, MD, ABPN, ScD, Kuwait Centre for Mental Health (KCMH), Shuwaikh, State of Kuwait.
Alenezi, MD, Kuwait Centre for Mental Health (KCMH), Shuwaikh, State of Kuwait.
Psychopharmacol Bull. 2025 Apr 8;55(3):20-25.
It is widely agreed that the mentally ill constitute a sizeable chunk of the disabled population not only for those afflicted but also for their caregivers alike.
To assess the degree of disability with subsequent medico-legal ramifications, clinicians largely rely on generic clinical impressions and short brief interviews that are by no means bias-free lacking in standardization and objectivity.
To this end, authors, herein, draft, the K-MIDS or the Kuwait-Mental Illness Disability Scale.
Baseline Requirements and Scoring System of K-MIDS are devised largely drawing on authors' vast clinical expertise in this area.
The assessment of functional disability related to serious mental illness remains an unmet need in the Gulf region where disability allowance is currently based on generic clinical impressions, brief interviews and collateral input. K-MIDS is intended to be a step moving forward. Psychometric properties are due second.
人们普遍认为，精神疾病患者在残疾人群体中占相当大的比例，这不仅对患者自身，对其照顾者也是如此。
为评估残疾程度及其后续的法医学影响，临床医生很大程度上依赖一般的临床印象和简短访谈，而这些方法远非没有偏差，缺乏标准化和客观性。
为此，本文作者起草了K-MIDS，即科威特精神疾病残疾量表。
K-MIDS的基线要求和评分系统主要借鉴了作者在该领域丰富的临床专业知识。
在海湾地区，与严重精神疾病相关的功能残疾评估仍是一项未得到满足的需求，目前该地区的残疾津贴是基于一般的临床印象、简短访谈和间接信息。K-MIDS旨在向前迈出一步。其次是心理测量特性。
