# Establishing the cut-off scores for the severity ranges of schizophrenia on the BPRS-6 scale: findings from the REAP-AP
> Park S.C.

URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/pub_scopus_85076878402
Jurnal / Konferensi: Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Tahun terbit: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24750573.2019.1695994
ISSN: 24750573
Kuartil SJR: Q3
Citations: 2

## Authors
- Park S.C.

## Abstract
Objective: Using data from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antipsychotics (REAP-AP), our study aimed to establish the remission and severity ranges (mild, moderate, and severe) of schizophrenia on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-6 (BPRS-6).Methods: A total of 1,438 patients with schizophrenia from India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan were enrolled in the study. Using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses, the optimal cut-off scores for the remission and severity ranges on the BPRS-6 were established.Results: The scalability of the BPRS-6 was considered to have an acceptable “unidimensionality” (coefficient of scalability = 0.43). The cut-off scores for the remission of schizophrenia and mild, moderate, and severe schizophrenia can be optimally defined as the BPRS-6 total score of <5, 5–9, 10–19 and >20, respectively.Conclusion: The BPRS-6 can be a promising, brief, and unidimensional rating scale to supplement the measurement-based care of schizophrenia.

## Keywords
- Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
- Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)
- Psychiatry
- Rating scale
- Receiver operating characteristic
- Scale (ratio)
- Medical prescription
- Medicine
- Psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Internal medicine
- Psychosis
- Pharmacology
- Developmental psychology
- Cartography
- Geography

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