Die Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) von Overall und Gorham bei akuten paranoid-halluzinatorischen Psychosen. Untersuchungen zu einer deutschen Übersetzung der BPRS

: A German translation of Overall and Gorham's "Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale" (BPRS) has been used to select patients with acute paranoid psychoses for a drug trial and to evaluate the results of the treatment. The BPRS proved very useful in screening, and as a reliable method to judge the global therapeutic outcome. The total score showed a high degree of interrater reliability; it also reflected a marked decrease of psychopathological symptoms at the end of the trial. Interrater correlation coefficients were lower than 0.7 in 9/16 items. This may be due to the somewhat unprecise and ambigous formulation of several items. The average BPRS profile of patients with "paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia" were similar to those published by French authors for the corresponding diagnosis.