Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder (SUMD)

Full name of scale

Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder

Languages

English + Translated into 3 other languages

French version reference

Paillot, C., Ingrand, P., Millet, B., Amador, X.-F., Senon, J.-L., Olié, J.-P., & Jaafari, N. (2010). Traduction et validation française de l’échelle d’évaluation de la conscience des troubles mentaux des patients schizophrènes: The Scale to assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder

(SUMD). L’Encéphale, 36(6), 472–477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.encep.2009.12.008

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

No information found

Utility

Clinical setting

 

This measure assesses patients’ insight

 

Two versions exist, long and abbreviated.

Time to complete

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Cost/license

No information found

Amador, X. F., Flaum, M., Andreasen, N. C., Strauss, D. H., Yale, S. A., Clark, S. C., & Gorman, J. M. (1994). Awareness of illness in schizophrenia and schizoaffective and mood disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 51(10), 826–836. Follow this link for the article.

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