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BioPsychoSocial
Assessment Tools for the Elderly - Assessment Summary Sheet
Test: Brief
Symptom Inventory (BSI)
Year:
1975
Domain:
Psychological
Assessment
Tool Category: Mental
Health
Variations/Translations:
An abbreviated form, BSI 18 is available. BSI
is also available in Spanish and French Canadian.
Assessment
Setting: Clinical
Method of
Delivery: Self- or
staff-administered questionnaire
Description:
The BSI is a 53-item symptom inventory designed
to reflect the psychological symptom patterns of psychiatric and
medical patients and non-patients. This inventory reports profiles
of 9 primary symptom dimensions (somatization,
obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression,
anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and
psychoticism) and 3 global indices of distress (Global Severity
Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index and Positive Symptom
Total).
Scoring/Interpretation:
Respondents rank each feeling item on a 5-point
scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). Rankings
characterize the intensity of distress during the past 7 days.
Scores can be summed for each dimension, or calculated into each
global index.
Time to
Administer: 8-10 minutes
Availability:
Available in book published by author (see
reference), or can be purchased online. Also available as appendix
in some studies.
Software:
MICROTEST Q system
Website: N/A
Quantitative/Qualitative:
Quantitative
Validity
(Quantitative): Correlations between
the BSI and the Wiggins Content Scales and the Tryon cluster
scores from the MMPI ranged from 0.30 to 0.72, with the most
relevant score correlations averaging above 0.50. Factor analysis
confirmed the a priori construction of the symptom dimensions.
Correlations between the BSI and SCL-R-90 were 0.92 to 0.99.
Reliability
(Quantitative): The author reports
good internal consistency for 9 dimensions ranging 0.71-0.85. No
alpha reliability is reported for the three global indices.
Test-retest reliability for 9 dimensions ranges from 0.68 to 0.91,
and for the 3 global indices from 0.87 to 0.90.
References:
Derogatis, L.R.
(1975). Brief Symptom Inventory.
Baltimore, MD: Clinical Psychometric Research.
Derogatis, L.R.
(1993). BSI Brief Symptom Inventory.
Adminstration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual (4th
Ed.). Minneapolis, MN: National Computer
Systems.
Comments:
N/A
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