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The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia

Jean Endicott, PhD; Robert L. Spitzer, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1978;35(7):837-844.

Abstract
• The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) was developed to reduce information variance in both the descriptive and diagnostic evaluation of a subject. The SADS is unique among rating scales in that it provides for (1) a detailed description of the features of the current episode of illness when they were at their most severe; (2) a description of the level of severity of manifestations of major dimensions of psychopathology during the week preceding the evaluation, which can then be used as a measure of change; (3) a progression of questions and criteria, which provides information for making diagnoses; and (4) a detailed description of past psychopathology and functioning relevant to an evaluation of diagnosis, prognosis, and overall severity of disturbance. This article reports on initial scale development and reliability studies of the items and the scale scores.

Author Affiliations
From the Biometrics Research Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 18, 1977.

Read before the 130th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, May 1977.

Reprint requests to Biometrics Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (Dr Spitzer).

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