A brief inpatient measure of global psychiatric symptom severity: initial validation of the Brief Symptom Measure-25 for an adolescent inpatient sample.

Adolescent psychiatry is experiencing a growing need for brief yet psychometrically robust outcome measures for inpatient settings. Outcome measures currently available present limitations to clinicians and patients alike in terms of their excessive length, time of completion, difficulty to score, and focus on specific clusters of symptoms. The present study sought to validate the Brief Symptom Measure-25 (BSM-25) as a brief and easily administered measure of global psychiatric symptom severity in adolescent inpatient samples.

A brief measure of psychological health and well-being: initial validation of the schwartz outcome scale for an adolescent inpatient sample.

The present study evaluated whether the Schwartz Outcome Scale-10 (SOS-10), a well-validated self-report measure of psychological health and well-being in the adult population, would tap this construct similarly in an adolescent inpatient sample. This study looked to compared scores on the SOS-10 with the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), two well-validated self-report measures of behavioral problems and interpersonal distress. A total of 154 adolescent psychiatric inpatients completed the SOS-10, YSR self-report, and the IIP-32 at or within a day of admission to the inpatient unit.