The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale—Spanish Adaptation

摘要: The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) consists of a formalized clinical interview 30 operationally defined items for psychopathology assessment. We report here on the psychometric equivalence Spanish language adaptation (PANSS-S), developed to facilitate minority group, multinational, cross-cultural studies schizophrenia. Two bilingual psychiatrists simultaneously rated 57 psychiatric inpatients using PANSS (N = 20), PANSS-S or both methods 17). demonstrated sound interrater reliabilities (r .93 positive .74 negative syndrome, p less than .001), which were similar those from current assessment original standardization studies. In support criterion-related validity, means variance two instruments comparable, significant cross-correlations obtained principal scales .92 .83 .0001), component symptoms, five additional clusters. results suggest that has properties resembling may be used interchangeably in Spanish-speaking population.