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Interprofessional communicability and reliability of the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) as assessed by video‐taped interviews
Author(s) -
Perris C.,
Ericsson U.,
Jacobsson L.,
Lindstroum H.,
Perris H.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb03581.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , scale (ratio) , rating scale , psychopathology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , developmental psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Five raters: two experienced psychiatrists, two psychologists (one acquainted with the use of the scale and one new to it) and an untrained social worker, participated in training sessions in the use of the CPRS. Videotaped interviews were used for assessing the level of inter‐rater reliability and the communicability of the CPRS to unexperienced raters. As in previous studies, it was found that the CPRS is easily communicable and that a very satisfactory level of agreement among raters can be achieved.