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Using the brief symptom inventory to profile monolingual spanish‐speaking psychiatric outpatients
Author(s) -
Acosta Frank X.,
Nguyen Loc H.,
Yamamoto Joe
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199409)50:5<723::aid-jclp2270500509>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - psychology , raw score , normative , psychiatry , population , clinical psychology , demography , philosophy , epistemology , sociology
Abstract As part of a larger study (Acosta, Evans, Hurwicz, & Yamamoto, 1987), a translated version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) was given to 153 monolingual Spanish‐speaking psychiatric outpatients in the Los Angeles area. The raw mean scores on the nine primary symptom dimensions and the Global Severity Index (GSI) of the Spanish‐speaking population were compared with the published raw mean scores of a normative sample of English‐speaking psychiatric outpatients. Results suggested that the Spanish‐speaking population had higher symptom levels on several dimensions and the GSI. It was suggested that the BSI could be a potentially useful instrument for self‐reported psychiatric symptomatology among the Spanish‐speaking population if an appropriate translation of the BSI were used.