Rating Scales in Psychiatry

This booklet will help guide readers through the crucial process of selecting the rating scales to use in research.

Peter Tyrer (Author), Caroline Methuen (Author)

9781904671534, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Paperback / softback, published 1 June 2007

64 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 0.4 cm, 0.12 kg

Selection of the best outcome measures is a crucial step in psychiatric research. There are excellent instruments available for most areas of interest and researchers are often faced with a confusing choice. Getting it right will save you time and money, affect the validity and comparability of your results and, ultimately, improve the impact of your publications. This booklet, extracted from the third edition of Research Methods in Psychiatry and with a new foreword and introduction, will help guide you through the crucial process of selecting the rating scales to use in your research. Crucially, each scale is listed with its citation rate as a guide to its popularity among the research community and the potential comparability of results.

Foreword
Introduction
Rating scales in psychiatry
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]