Validation of a Clinical Global Impression Scale for Aggression (CGI-A) in a sample of 558 psychiatric patients
In: Schizophrenia research, Jg. 100 (2008), Heft 1-3, S. 342-348
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Objective: Clinical management of aggression depends on the availability of easily administrable measurements allowing reliable evaluation. The present study's aim is to validate a Clinical Global Impression-Severity of Aggression scale (CGI-A). Method: 558 inpatients with psychiatric disorders and an agitated-aggressive syndrome at baseline were continuously assessed over 5 days using CGI-A and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale-Excited Component (PANSS-EC). Equipercentile linking, correlation analyses and linear regression were applied. Results: Relationship between CGI-A and PANSS-EC total score was found to be linear. On a 5-level CGI-A scale, values of 1 to 5 points were found to correspond to PANSS-EC scores of 12.2, 16.7, 21.3, 25.8, and 30.4, respectively (average increase: 4.6). All findings remained stable when only data from patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were analyzed. Conclusions: The CGI-A is proposed as a quickly administrable scale for the assessment of patients' aggressiveness.
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Validation of a Clinical Global Impression Scale for Aggression (CGI-A) in a sample of 558 psychiatric patients
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | HUBER, Christian G ; LAMBERT, Martin ; NABER, Dieter ; SCHACHT, Alexander ; HUNDEMER, Hans-Peter ; WAGNER, Thomas T ; SCHIMMELMANN, Benno G |
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Zeitschrift: | Schizophrenia research, Jg. 100 (2008), Heft 1-3, S. 342-348 |
Veröffentlichung: | Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2008 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print; 7; 1 p.1/2 |
ISSN: | 0920-9964 (print) |
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