The Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS): final development and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A major barrier to developing treatments for negative symptoms has been measurement concerns with existing assessment tools. Fulfilling the top recommendation of the National Institute of Mental Health's Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms, the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS) was developed using an iterative, empirical approach, and includes items assessing motivation, pleasure, and emotion expression. The authors employed multiple analytic techniques to develop the CAINS and here provide final development and validation results.

Method

The CAINS structure, interrater agreement, test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity were assessed in a large and diverse sample of 162 outpatients with schizophr

SUBMITTER: Kring AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3785242 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature