Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1595-1598
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
An international perspective on assessment of negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia
M Moscarelli, C Maffei, BM Cesana, P Boato, T Farma, A Grilli, V Lingiardi and CL Cazzullo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Milan, Italy.
The authors used the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms and the
Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms in interviews of 96 psychiatric
inpatients in Italy. They evaluated the interrater reliability and the
internal consistency of these scales for the assessment of negative and
positive symptoms in schizophrenia. Their findings indicate that the
results of these scales are similar in Italy and the United States,
countries with different languages and cultures.
