BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY

There is a need for a short instrument to assess the multiple areas of dysfunction as well as drinking dyscontrol in alcoholics. The Brief Addiction Rating Scale (BARS), covering 10 areas of functioning has been developed to meet this need. This report describes the rationale and development of this...

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Autores principales: Janakiramaiah, N., Venkatesha Murthy, P.J. Naga, Raghu, T.M., Subbakrishna, D.K., Gangadhar, B.N., Murthy, Pratima
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455394
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author Janakiramaiah, N.
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Raghu, T.M.
Subbakrishna, D.K.
Gangadhar, B.N.
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description There is a need for a short instrument to assess the multiple areas of dysfunction as well as drinking dyscontrol in alcoholics. The Brief Addiction Rating Scale (BARS), covering 10 areas of functioning has been developed to meet this need. This report describes the rationale and development of this new scale. A high interrater reliability (0.9) on all the items of the scale and the ease of administration justify its clinical and research use.
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spelling pubmed-29629962011-03-31 BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY Janakiramaiah, N. Venkatesha Murthy, P.J. Naga Raghu, T.M. Subbakrishna, D.K. Gangadhar, B.N. Murthy, Pratima Indian J Psychiatry Original Article There is a need for a short instrument to assess the multiple areas of dysfunction as well as drinking dyscontrol in alcoholics. The Brief Addiction Rating Scale (BARS), covering 10 areas of functioning has been developed to meet this need. This report describes the rationale and development of this new scale. A high interrater reliability (0.9) on all the items of the scale and the ease of administration justify its clinical and research use. Medknow Publications 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC2962996/ /pubmed/21455394 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Janakiramaiah, N.
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Murthy, Pratima
BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title_full BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title_fullStr BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title_full_unstemmed BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title_short BRIEF ADDICTION RATING SCALE (BARS) FOR ALCHOHOLICS : DESCRIPTION AND RELIABILTY
title_sort brief addiction rating scale (bars) for alchoholics : description and reliabilty
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