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.. _bprs:
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
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History and guide
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Original 16-item version: Overall & Gorham (1962),
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1962.10.3.799.
18-item version (adding disorientation and excitement): Overall (1972, 1976);
see Dingemans et al. (1995), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8748395.
20-item anchored version (adding overall severity/improvement impressions): US
DHHS, as below.
An overview is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20130622112841/http://www.cnsforum.com/clinicalresources/ratingscales/ratingpsychiatry/schizophrenia/
CamCOPS implements the 20-item BPRS. Separately, it implements the 24-item
version, the :ref:`BPRS-E `.
Source
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Original source is at
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1962.10.3.799 and at
https://web.archive.org/web/20130819010708/http://www.cnsforum.com/streamfile.aspx?filename=BPRS.pdf&path=pdf.
Also: US Department of Health & Human Services: Public Health Service; Alcohol,
Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; NIMH Treatment Strategies in
Schizophrenia Society. Anchored. Originally after Overall & Gorham (1962). As
in Kaplan & Sadock (2005, eds) *Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry*, 8th ed;
Lippincott, Philadelphia, p. 939.
Intellectual property rights
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Public domain.
- “Available in public domain.”
(http://www.masspartnership.com/provider/outcomesmanagement/outcomesfiles/tools/bprs.pdf,
accessed 2012-09-04, saved at
https://web.archive.org/web/20061104162939/http://www.masspartnership.com/provider/outcomesmanagement/outcomesfiles/tools/bprs.pdf.)
- Original paper indicates funding by the US Veterans Administration and the US
NIMH (thus, a work of the US federal government).
- Overall (1978) explains its development within the VA Central
Neuropsychiatric Research Laboratory
(http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1979/A1979HZ19700001.pdf).
- “In public domain.”
(http://apntoolkit.mcmaster.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:brief-psychiatric-rating-scale-bprs&catid=46:mental-health&Itemid=64,
saved on 2015-02-14 at
https://web.archive.org/web/20150214162907/http://apntoolkit.mcmaster.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:brief-psychiatric-rating-scale-bprs&catid=46:mental-health&Itemid=64).