Development and clinimetric assessment of a nurse-administered screening tool for movement disorders in psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Movement disorders associated with exposure to antipsychotic drugs are common and stigmatising but underdiagnosed.

Aims

To develop and evaluate a new clinical procedure, the ScanMove instrument, for the screening of antipsychotic-associated movement disorders for use by mental health nurses.

Method

Item selection and content validity assessment for the ScanMove instrument were conducted by a panel of neurologists, psychiatrists and a mental health nurse, who operationalised a 31-item screening procedure. Interrater reliability was measured on ratings for 30 patients with psychosis from ten mental health nurses evaluating video recordings of the procedure. Criterion and concurrent validity were tested comparing the ScanMove instrument-based rating of 13 ment

SUBMITTER: Balint B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171333 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature