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. 2024 Apr 5;15:1327783. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1327783

Table 3.

Instruments used to measure psychosis.

Nr Instrument, Author Items/Time/Formats Domains assessed Reliability Validity
1 PANNS
(Kay, Fiszbein & Opler, 1988)
5 studies:
Perona-Garcelan et al., 2008, 2012; Wright et al., 2020; Rosen et al., 2017; Longden et al., 2020
30 items
Positive scale items (7)
Negative scale items (7)
General psychopathology scale items (16)
observations from interview/verbal report/information from care givers
Time: 1 hour
Response: PANNS rating anchors 1-7 (absent to extreme)
Psychotic symptoms:
positive symptoms (delusions, grandiosity suspiciousness/persecution, unusual thought content)
negative symptoms (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, passive/apathetic social withdrawal, lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation, active social avoidance
Reported:
Rosen et al.,2017
Internal consistency α = 0.77 – 0.89
Test-retest reliability r=0.80
Inter-rater reliability – Kappa = 0.85
Not reported:
Perona-Garcelan et al., 2008, 2012;
Wright et al., 2020;
Longden et al., 2020
Not reported by any of the 5 studies
2 PSYRATS
(Haddock et al., 1999)
4 studies:
Kumar et al., 2018;
Ubeda-Gomez et al., 2015;
Perivoliotis et al., 2009;
Farrelly et al., 2016
Interviewer -scored
2 subscales:
hallucinations subscale (11 items); delusions subscale (6 items)
Response: 5-point Likert-type scale (0 ‘not present’ -4’present continuously’)
Measures various dimensions (presence, typology, beliefs/conviction, distress and disruption associated) of delusions and auditory hallucinations Reported:
Ubeda-Gomez et al., 2015
Inter-rater reliability 0.80
Not reported:
Kumar et al., 2018;
Perivoliotis et al., 2009;
Farrelly et al., 2016
Not reported by any of the 4 studies
3 SCID
(First et al., 2002)
1 study:
Rosen et al., 2017
Structured clinical interview for the DSM
Response: 3 point scale (1- absent; 2- subthreshold; 3 – threshold or true present)
Psychopathological assessments of types of hallucinations and forms of delusions Inter-rater reliability
Kappa 0.83
Not reported
4 SANS
(Andreasen, 1984)
1 study:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009
25 items
Interviewer-scored scale
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia Not reported Not reported
5 BAVQ-R
(Chadwick et al., 2000)
1 study:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009
Not described Auditory hallucinations Not reported Not reported
6 PDI
(Peters et al., 2004)
1 study:
Humpston et al., 2016
21 item- scale Delusional ideation Cronbach’s alpha 0.77 Not reported
7 CAPS
(bell, Halligan & Ellis, 2006)
1 study:
Humpston et al., 2016
32 items- scale
Subscales:
Distress, intrusiveness, frequency
Anomalous perceptual experiences psychosis-like Cronbach’s alpha 0.87 Good construct validity