.. docs/source/tasks/bprs.rst .. Copyright (C) 2012, University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry. Created by Rudolf Cardinal (rnc1001@cam.ac.uk). . This file is part of CamCOPS. . CamCOPS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . CamCOPS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with CamCOPS. If not, see . .. _bprs: Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) ------------------------------------- History and guide ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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).