Open Access<p>Validation of the Chinese Version of the 16-Item Negative Symptom Assessment</p>
Author(s) -
Bingjie Huang,
Yong Wang,
Qi Miao,
Xin Yu,
Chengcheng Pu,
Chuan Shi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s251182
Subject(s) - positive and negative syndrome scale , cronbach's alpha , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , intraclass correlation , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , medicine , convergent validity , construct validity , rating scale , psychiatry , psychology , psychometrics , internal consistency , structural equation modeling , psychosis , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics
The Negative Symptom Assessment-16 (NSA-16) is an instrument with significant validity and utility for assessing negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia. This study aimed to validate the Chinese version of the NSA-16.