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Comparing Kentucky and New York Schizophrenics

ROBERT L. SPITZER, MD; JOSEPH FLEISS, MS; WILLIAM KERNOHAN, MD; JOAN C. LEE, PhD; INGRAM T. BALDWIN, MA

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(5):448-455.

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Problem

THE DEVELOPMENT of adequate criterion measures for identifying cases of mental disorder to which social and cultural factors can then be related is a continuing and crucial methodological problem. The Mental Status Schedule, a relatively new instrument, was constructed to improve the research value of clinical judgments based on data collected during a psychiatric interview. Two of the authors have reported on this instrument's reliability and validity.¹³ This paper describes the use of this instrument to detect differences in the amount and kind of psychopathology in a sample of urban New York and rural Kentucky hospitalized schizophrenics. A future paper will examine what social-cultural factors may be related to observed differences between the two groups.

Mental Status Schedule

The Mental Status Schedule (MSS) contains an interview schedule and a matching inventory of 248 dichotomous items descriptive of small units of pathological behavior (see Table . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK; DANVILLE, KY

Senior Research Psychiatrist (Dr. Spitzer), and Senior Biostatistician (J. Fleiss), Biometrics Research and Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Research Psychologist (Dr. Lee) and Research Psychologist (I. Baldwin), Kentucky Mental Health Foundation; Superintendent, Kentucky State Hospital (Dr. Kernohan).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 30, 1964.

Reprint requests to 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (Dr. Spitzer).

Read before the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Los Angeles, May 4-8, 1964.

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