A brief test for measuring malingering in schizophrenic individuals.
Am J Psychiatry
; 142(12): 1478-81, 1985 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-4073316
ABSTRACT
The M Test, a brief test for measuring malingering of schizophrenic illness, contains true-false items describing actual symptoms of schizophrenia, bizarre attitudes and beliefs, and fake symptoms. Normal subjects rarely endorsed any of the items. The responses of genuinely ill schizophrenic inpatients were compared with those of normal subjects who had been asked to fake malingering after being educated about the symptoms of schizophrenia and forewarned about the purpose of the test. The test significantly discriminated between genuinely ill patients and malingerers. The test correctly identified 87.3% of the schizophrenic subjects and 78.2% of the malingering normal subjects.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Testes Psicológicos
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Esquizofrenia
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Simulação de Doença
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1985
Tipo de documento:
Article