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Full name of scale |
Royal Park Multidiagnostic Instrument for Psychosis |
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Languages |
English |
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Rater |
Clinician-rated |
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Traning |
Training required. The training involves viewing and discussion of videotaped interviews, conducting live interviews under the supervision of experienced interviewers, extensive readings in psychopathology, and particularly close familiarity with the glossary definitions of the items contained in the instrument. The training of clinicians for this task requires a major investment of time and resources, and results in the development of very specialized skills. |
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Utility |
Clinical and research settings
This is a diagnostic tool designed for assessment of an acute episode of psychotic illness. The instrument is validity-oriented meaning it enables all valid sources of information to incorporated into the assessment. |
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Time to complete |
6-7 hours of interview time: l.5-2 hours for each patient interview 1 hour for each illness duration or informant interview Approximately 2 hours to extract relevant information from case notes, collate the multiple sets of information to make final ratings, apply the diagnostic decision rules, and record the diagnostic summary. |
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Cost/license |
No information found |
McGorry, P. D., Copolov, D. L., & Singh, B. S. (1990). Royal park multidiagnostic instrument for psychosis: Part I. Rationale and review. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 16(3), 501–515. Follow this link for the article.
McGorry, P. D., Singh, B. S., Copolov, D. L., Kaplan, I., Dossetor, C. R., & Van Riel, R. J. (1990). Royal Park multidiagnostic instrument for psychosis: Part II. Development, reliability, and validity. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 16(3), 517–536. Follow this link for the article.
