Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS)

Full name of scale

Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale(Eisen, Dill, & Grob, 1994) / 32 item (Eisen, Wilcox, Leff, Schaefer, & Culhane, 1999)

Languages

English, Russian

 

Rater

 

PROM; interviewer involved but there is not indication of their identity (but can be completed without interviewers if shrinking resources are available)

Training

Not applicable

Utility

A behavioral health self-assessment tool to measure symptoms in 6 domains: depression and functioning, relationships, self-harm, emotional lability, psychosis, and substance use.

 

Clinical practice for psychiatric outcome assessment with most psychiatric inpatients;

 

with a mixture of individualized and standardized approaches to assessments;

 

includes the major psychiatric symptoms and functioning difficulties

 

also can be used by clients and clinicians together to help identify, assess and compare aspects of problem behavior at specified intervals during and after treatment

Versions available for the measure

A 32 item version (BASIS-32) and a 24 item version (Basis 24)

Time to complete

Admission interviews generally completed in 20 to 30 min.

Cost/license

Copyrighted. requires an end-user license approved by McLean Hospital.

Eisen, S. V., Dill, D. L., & Grob, M. C. (1994). Reliability and validity of a brief patient-report instrument for psychiatric outcome evaluation. Psychiatric Services, 45(3), 242–247. Follow this link for the article.

Eisen, S. V., Wilcox, M., Leff, H. S., Schaefer, E., & Culhane, M. A. (1999). Assessing behavioral health outcomes in outpatient programs: Reliability and validity of the BASIS-32. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 26(1), 5–17. Follow this link for the article.

 

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