Open AccessComparative Description of the SADS and PSE
Author(s) -
Richard E. Luria,
R. J. Guziec
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
schizophrenia bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.823
H-Index - 190
eISSN - 1745-1707
pISSN - 0586-7614
DOI - 10.1093/schbul/7.2.248
Subject(s) - strengths and weaknesses , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia , content validity , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , content (measure theory) , mental illness , psychiatry , schedule , clinical psychology , mental state , psychometrics , applied psychology , mental health , social psychology , computer science , mathematics , anxiety , power (physics) , physics , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics , operating system
The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), Part I, and the Present State Examination (PSE) are both structured interviews to assess the present psychiatric condition. The present article attempts to provide researchers with information that may help them to decide which of the two instruments would be most suitable for their purposes. We describe the similarities and differences in the instruments' development, purpose, method, content, training requirements, reliability, and validity to point out their relative strengths and weaknesses for psychiatric assessment. Essentially, the PSE is, by both content and method, a mental status examination. The SADS, Part I, is, by content, an amalgam of a mental status examination and a history of the present illness, but, by method, is a history of the present illness. Neither comprises a complete traditional assessment of the current condition.
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