An examination of the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric subjects.
- Author:
Bei-ling GAO
1
;
Zhi-biao HUANG
;
Dong-ling WU
;
Shu-ming DING
;
Wei-de LIANG
;
Xue-wu LI
Author Information
1. Forensic Psychiatric Institute of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen 518020, China. blgao@21cn.com
- Publication Type:Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- MeSH:
Adult;
Female;
Forensic Psychiatry;
Humans;
Lie Detection;
Male;
Malingering/psychology*;
Mental Disorders/psychology*;
Psychological Tests;
Reproducibility of Results;
Volition;
Young Adult
- From:
Journal of Forensic Medicine
2008;24(4):256-258
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
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.
