Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 220-226 , May 2003

The brief symptom inventory and the positive and negative syndrome scale: discriminate validity between a self-reported and observational measure of psychopathology

  • Neil J Preston

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Neil J. Preston, Senior Research Psychologist, Cottage 25, Mental Health Directorate, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, PO Box 480, Fremantle, Western Australia 6160
    • Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Fremantle, Australia
    • ,
  • Tracey J Harrison

      Affiliations

    • Mills Street Centre, Bentley Health Service, Bentley, Australia

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doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00010-5

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 220-226 , May 2003

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