Betemps E J
College of Nursing of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0038, USA.
Psychiatr Serv. 1999 Jan;50(1):107-8. doi: 10.1176/ps.50.1.107.
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.
作者描述了精神不适量表的开发与评估过程。该量表是一种自我报告工具，用于对患者因随时间变化的精神症状而产生的不适进行定量测量。最初，在一家退伍军人事务（VA）医疗中心，对55名精神科住院患者以及VA系统中的71名内科门诊患者组成的对照组，对一个包含60个条目的量表进行了评估。之后，对292名接受精神病治疗的门诊患者再次进行了修订和测试。最终得到的包含23个条目的量表具有内部一致性，并且能够反映患者病情随时间的变化。
