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scale, assessment, positive, symptoms, this, article, includes, list, references, related, reading, external, links, sources, remain, unclear, because, lacks, inline, citations, please, help, improve, this, article, introducing, more, precise, citations, july,. This article includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations July 2012 Learn how and when to remove this message Within psychological testing the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms SAPS is a rating scale to measure positive symptoms in schizophrenia The scale was developed by Nancy Andreasen and was first published in 1984 1 SAPS is split into 4 domains and within each domain separate symptoms are rated from 0 absent to 5 severe The scale is closely linked to the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms SANS which was published a few years earlier Contents 1 Items 1 1 Hallucinations 1 2 Delusions 1 3 Bizarre Behaviour 1 4 Positive Formal Thought Disorder 2 See also 3 ReferencesItems editHallucinations edit Auditory Hallucinations Voices Commenting Voices Conversing Somatic or Tactile Hallucinations Olfactory Hallucinations Visual Hallucinations Global Rating of Severity of Hallucinations Delusions edit Persecutory Delusions Delusions of Jealousy Delusions of Sin or Guilt Grandiose Delusions Religious Delusions Somatic Delusions Ideas and Delusions of Reference Delusions of Being Controlled Delusions of Mind Reading Thought Broadcasting Thought Insertion Thought Withdrawal Global Rating of Severity of Delusions Bizarre Behaviour edit Clothing and Appearance Social and Sexual Behavior Aggressive and Agitated Behavior Repetitive or Stereotyped Behavior Global Rating of Severity of Bizarre Behavior Positive Formal Thought Disorder edit Derailment loose associations Tangentiality Incoherence Word salad Schizophasia Illogicality Circumstantiality Pressure of speech Distractible speech Clanging Global Rating of Positive Formal Thought DisorderSee also editBrief Psychiatric Rating Scale BPRS Diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale PANSS Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms SANS References edit Andreasen Nancy C 1984 Scale for the assessment of positive symptoms Archived 2010 12 28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms amp oldid 1172100186, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
