The participants in the NIMH-MATRICS Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms recommended that an instrument be developed that measured blunted affect, alogia, asociality, anhedonia, and avolition. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) is a 13-item instrument designed for clinical trials...
The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) grew out of a recommendation by the NIMH-sponsored Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms that a scale based on contemporary concepts be developed. We assessed sensitivity to change of the BNSS in a trial of MIN-101, which showed efficacy ...
Polish version of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS). OBJECTIVES\nTo create a Polish adaptation of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS), to assess the internal consistency of the Polish version of the BNSS, and to make correlations between the BNSS scores and the Positive and Negative...
Blunted affect, Alogia, Asociality, Anhedonia and Avolition are largely recognized as valid domains of the negative symptoms construct. Among the new assessment instruments, both the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) and the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS) are considered ...
The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) grew out of a recommendation by the NIMH-sponsored Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms that a scale based on contemporary concepts be developed. We assessed sensitivity to change of the BNSS in a trial of MIN-101, which showed efficacy ...
The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS): Independent validation in a large sample of Italian patients with schizophrenia. European Psychiatry: The Journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists, 30(5), 641-647.Mucci A, Galderisi S, Merlotti E, et al. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (...
The NIMH-MATRICS Consensus defined five domains for negative symptoms, which The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) covers. Methods: We used the COSMIN guidelines for systematic reviews to evaluate the quality of psychometric data of the BNSS scale as a Clinician-Rated Outcome Measure (ClinROM)....
Negative symptoms are considered core symptoms of schizophrenia. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) was developed to measure this symptomatic dimension according to a current consensus definition. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the German version of the BNSS. To expand ...
The reliability analysis showed high values of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient both for the whole scale (0.97) and for individual subscales (0.74-0.93). The BNSS and its subscales showed a high significant correlation with the total PANSS score and with the PANSS negative symptom subscale, ...
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia have been assessed by many instruments. However, a current consensus on these symptoms has been built and new tools, such as the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS), are generated. This study aimed to evaluate reliability and validity of the Turkish version of ...