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Evaluation of Mini Mental State Examination and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale on aged schizophrenic patients
Author(s) -
SENO HARUO,
SHIBATA MASAHIRO,
FUJIMOTO AKIHIKO,
KOGA KAORU,
KANNO HIROSHI,
ISHINO HIROSHI
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00453.x
Subject(s) - brief psychiatric rating scale , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , dementia , psychiatry , psychology , rating scale , mini–mental state examination , population , scale for the assessment of negative symptoms , clinical psychology , psychosis , cognitive impairment , cognition , medicine , disease , developmental psychology , environmental health
Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and subscales of the BPRS were performed on 73 elderly inpatients (mean age: 67.9 years; standard deviation: 7.2; range: 60–89) diagnosed with DSM‐III‐R chronic schizophrenia. Forty of the subjects were men and 33 were women. A significant negative correlation was observed between MMSE and the age, factor negative, factor depressive, and total score of BPRS. We believe, however, that it is relatively sufficient to screen for demented illness of schizophrenics using MMSE when considering the age and the psychiatric symptoms (especially negative or depressive symptoms). Forty‐eight (66%) of the 73 patients were categorized as ‘demented’ by MMSE. These results suggest that the aged inpatients with schizophrenia in a hospital showed certain kinds of cognitive deficits (including senile dementia) more frequently than the general population.