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The usefulness of a self-report questionnaire measuring auditory verbal hallucinations

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Authors

Kim, Se Hyun; Jung, Hee Yeon; Hwang, Samuel S.; Chang, Jae Seung; Ahn, Yong Min; Kim, Yong Sik; Kim, Yeni

Issue Date
2010-08-16
Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Citation
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; Vol.34 6; 968-973
Keywords
Auditory verbal hallucinationSelf-reportHamilton Program for Schizophrenia VoicesQuestionnaireSchizophrenia
Abstract
A self-report measure of psychotic symptoms has been considered to be unsuitable due to the possible denial of symptoms in the patients with schizophrenia. However, a self-report questionnaire would be an efficient tool for the evaluation of subjective aspects of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH), which requires further clarification. In this study, a total of 87 patients with schizophrenia took baseline evaluations for Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia Voices Questionnaire (HPSVQ), a self-report questionnaire for AVH, and Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales-Auditory Hallucination Subscale (PSYRATS-AH) and an item measuring hallucinations (P3) on Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for Schizophrenia (PANSS), both interviewer-rated scales for AVH. At 1 week and at 6 months post-baseline, 39 and 68 patients repeated HPSVQ and PSYRATS-AH, respectively. Total scores on HPSVQ showed good agreement with those on PSYRATS-AH and PANSS, Item P3, and HPSVQ showed good test-retest reliability and internal consistency. In addition, the changes in total scores of HPSVQ during 6-month follow-up were also highly correlated to those of PSYRATS-AH. The findings of factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis suggested that the items addressing emotional characteristics of AVH constituted one factor and that the remaining items, primarily concerning the physical characteristics, combined to form another factor. Taken together, the HPSVQ a self-report questionnaire measuring AVH, was characterized by good psychometric properties, which suggests the appropriateness of a self-report scale for examining the internal structure of AVH in patients with schizophrenia. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0278-5846
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/78441
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2010.05.005
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