Assessment Of Mania With Self Rating Scale

Authors

  • R. Shakya Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Patan Academy Of Health Sciences, Lalitpur
  • S.K. Khandelwal Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  • R. Sagar Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v5i1.18325

Keywords:

Mania, Self Rating, Clinician Rating

Abstract

 Introduction: Patients with mania are generally considered unreliable informants about their illness and most of the mania rating scales are clinician administered. There are few self-rating scales in mania and the utility of which is immense.

Objective: The study was aimed to compare the co-relation between the self-rating scales and clinician rating scales in mania.

Method: Forty-two patients with mania in the tertiary care center of North Indian setting were applied with Clinician Administered Rating Scale for Mania,Altman Self-Rating Mania scale, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Clinical Global Impression Scale at base line and consecutive four weeks. The scores were analyzed for correlation.

Result: The Pearson’s correlation coefficient rho between self rated vs. clinician in the first week scores was 0.368 with p value of <0.05. On the subsequent weeks the rho value progressively increased and became highly significant (p<0.01).

Conclusion: Self-reporting by mania is reliable in looking at the symptoms. Self rating scale is not very reliable when the patient is very severely ill, at least to predict the severity /improvement, but, reliable when the patient improves from very severe illness to moderate or milder degree. The scale can be utilized as an augmentation to the clinical interview.

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Published

2017-09-29

How to Cite

Shakya, R., Khandelwal, S., & Sagar, R. (2017). Assessment Of Mania With Self Rating Scale. Journal of Psychiatrists&#039; Association of Nepal, 5(1), 14–17. https://doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v5i1.18325

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