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Psychosomatic Medicine 8:243-245 (1946)
© 1946 American Psychosomatic Society

A New Psychiatric Rating Scale

WILLIAM MALAMUD M.D.1, HUDSON HOAGLAND PH.D., ScD.2, and I. CHARLES KAUFMAN M.D.3

1 Worcester State Hospital and the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology Worcester, Massachusetts
2 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Worcester State Hospital and the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology Worcester, Massachusetts
3 On service with the armed forces

Qualitative letter grade ratings in terms of 20 items symptomatic of the psychiatric status of the patients are described.

These ratings may be converted to a numerical scale running from zero for well persons to 40 units in cases of extreme mental illness.

Three different psychiatrists, independently rating each of 20 patients on the same occasion, show correlation coefficients as follows:

Scores for M. and F., r=0.907, P<0.01.

Scores for M. and K., r =0.868, P<0.01.

Instructed nurses can use this scale so as to give meaningful rating evaluations of a psychiatric status that parallel the ratings of a psychiatrist.

Our data indicate that the ratings are sufficiently communicable and reproducible to make the scale a serviceable tool in psychosomatic studies of the patient's condition.






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