Development and application of the mania rating guide (MRG)

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Flávio Shansis¹  Eugênio Grevet¹  Betina Mattevi¹  Marcelo Berlim¹  Gabriela Maldonado¹  Aida Santin¹  Marcelo Fleck¹  Iván Izquierdo¹ 

[1] ,Federal University of the state of Rio Grande do Sul Departments of Biochemistry and of Psychiatric and Forensic Medicine Porto Alegre RS ,Brazil

关键词: Bipolar disorder;    Mania;    Semi-structured interview;    Entrevista semi-estruturada;    Mania;    Transtorno de humor bipolar;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-44462003000200008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this article we present the development and application of the Mania Rating Guide (MRG), a semi-structured interview. This guide was created in order to assist the filling of three mania Scales: Mania Rating Scale, Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale and Clinician-Administered Rating Scale for Mania. The MRG consists of twenty-one Psychopathological Dimensions, that correspond to the Items of the original Scales, and are structured in Questions. The guide was applied to fifteen manic patients admitted in the Psychiatric Unit of the Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre. A psychiatrist interviewed them using the MRG, and the interviews were videotaped. Afterwards, three independent raters scored the Mania scales based on the films. The impression of the raters was that the MRG allows not only to easily score all the Items of the Scales but also to cover the wide spectrum of the symptomatological presentation of a manic syndrome.

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