An Examination of the Self-reported Scale of Brief Psychopathological Symptoms to Detect Malingering in Forensic Psychiatric Subjects

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Abstract: Objective To examine the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms(SBPS) to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric cases.Methods Two hundred and six cases with different types of psychiatric problems were tested by SBPS.All cases were separately evaluated by two experts.Results About 34.5% cases(71/206) were classified as malingering by the cut-off 13 scores of SBPS.Compared with expert′s evaluation,SBPS showed a false negative rate of 19.8% and a false positive rate of 1.7%,respectively,with a total accuracy rate of 90.8%.Cases involved in compensations including working injury and traffic accidence showed the highest rate of malingering(51%).Conclusion SBPS is useful for detecting malingering psychopathological symptoms.

Key words: forensic psychiatry, expert testimony, psychopathological symptoms, self-report scale, malingering

GAO BEI-LING;HUANG ZHI-BIAO;WU DONG-LING;DING SHU-MING;LIANG WEI-DE;LI XUE-WU(FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE OF SHENZHEN KANGNING HOSPITAL;SHENZHEN 00;CHINA). An Examination of the Self-reported Scale of Brief Psychopathological Symptoms to Detect Malingering in Forensic Psychiatric Subjects[J]. , 2008, 0(4): 256-258.

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