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Full name of scale |
Strauss – Carpenter Scale |
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Languages |
English |
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Rater |
Clinician-rated |
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Training |
No training required |
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Utility |
Research setting Clinical setting
It is a 21-item measure that assesses the following variables: quantity and quality of useful work in the past year, social class, social relationships, heterosexual relationships, family history of psychiatric symptoms, action problems (violence and suicidal or homicidal gestures), flat affect, duration of previous hospitalizations, time since first occurrence of psychotic symptoms, presence of thought disorder, delusions or hallucinations in the past year, presence of depression, hypomania or mania in the past year, precipitating events, reported severity of subjective distress, ability to meet own basic needs and usual fullness of life. |
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Examples if measure used in clinical practice |
The scale can help to improve reliability of prediction of first psychotic episode among clinically high-risk individuals. |
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Time to complete |
Administration and scoring take 10 minutes |
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Cost/license |
No information found |
Strauss, J. S., & Carpenter, W. T. (1972). The prediction of outcome in schizophrenia: I. Characteristics of outcome. Archives of General Psychiatry, 27(6), 739–746. Follow this link for the article.
Strauss, J. S., & Carpenter, W. T. (1974). The prediction of outcome in schizophrenia: II. Relationships between predictor and outcome variables: A report from the WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 31(1), 37–42. Follow this link for the article.
Strauss, J. S., & Carpenter, W. T. (1977). Prediction of outcome in Schizophrenia: III. Five-yearn outcome and its predictors. Archives of General Psychiatry, 34(2), 159–163. Follow this link for the article.
