The brief negative symptom scale: Psychometric properties
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The participants in the NIMH-MATRICS Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms recommended that an instrument be developed that measured blunted affect, alogia, asociality, anhedonia, and avolition. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) is a 13-item instrument designed for clinical trials and other studies that measures these 5 domains. The interrater, test-retest, and internal consistency of the instrument were strong, with respective intraclass correlation coefficients of 0.93 for the BNSS total score and values of 0.89-0.95 for individual subscales. Comparisons with positive symptoms and other negative symptom instruments supported the discriminant and concurrent validity of the instrument.
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- Authors
- Kirkpatrick, B., Strauss, G. P., Nguyen, L., Fischer, B. A., Daniel, D. G., Cienfuegos, A., & Marder, S. R.
- Affiliations
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple (US)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Augusta University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kirkpatrick, Brian
- Venue
- Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-06-17
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 300-305
- ISSN
- 0586-7614 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1701
- PMC
- PMC3044634
- OpenAlex
- W2096192353
- Cited by
- 895
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 9.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Schizophrenia Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- Brief Negative Symptom Scale, negative symptoms
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affective Symptoms, Consensus Statements as Topic, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Psychometrics, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, United States, Reproducibility of Results, Observer Variation, Discriminant Analysis
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