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The reliability of the brief assessment schedule
Author(s) -
Mann A. H.,
Ames D.,
Graham N.,
Weyerer S.,
Eichhorn S.,
Platz S.,
Snowdon J.,
Hughes F.,
Ticehurst S.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930040408
Subject(s) - inter rater reliability , dementia , reliability (semiconductor) , german , schedule , scale (ratio) , psychology , psychiatry , depression (economics) , intra rater reliability , medicine , gerontology , rating scale , geography , disease , developmental psychology , computer science , power (physics) , physics , cartography , archaeology , pathology , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics , operating system
Reliability studies for the Brief Assessment Schedule between raters trained in England, West Germany and Australia have been carried out, as this instrument is now being widely used for assessing psychiatric morbidity among elderly residents in care in several countries. Interrater reliability for the dementia and depression scales for raters from the different countries working in English was high. However, the interlingual (English‐German) reliability for the dementia scale was less satisfactory.