[An examination of the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric subjects].

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.