What does BPRS stand for?

A total of 100 patients were assessed 4 times over the 30 lunar cycles using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile.

PTSD symptom severity (PTSD), the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), General Assessment of Functioning (GAF), general life satisfaction, and activities of daily living (ADL) generally correlate .

Data are collected using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Camberwell Assessment of Need, Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, and an internal outcome worksheet and resident satisfaction survey.

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale There are three commonly used methods to assess mental disorder when dealing directly with the patient: the clinical interview as per the mental status examination; client self-reported responses to standardized psychological or psychiatric tests: and behavioral observation of the patient in naturalistic or structured settings by trained staff.

Hooten, Lyketsos, and Mollenhauer (1998) proposed a cutoff score of 39 on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Overall & Gorham, 1962) as an appropriate predictor for non-suicidal patients presenting at a psychiatric emergency department.

[11] An exploratory subanalysis from a one-year, open-label trial of 80 elderly patients diagnosed with Alzhemier's disease who were treated with quetiapine compared with a subset of patients who were at least mildly hostile at baseline (n=46) showed significant improvement in total Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) scores and in three hostility measures (Factor V, BPRS Hostility Item, and Hostility Cluster Score).

The primary outcome was the brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS).

The analysis evaluated change from baseline using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) for the 1,553 patients who remained on treatment for more than two weeks.