Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
Positive Symptoms
- Delusions
- Conceptual disorganization
- Hallucinations
- Excitement
- Grandiosity
- Suspiciousness/persecution
- Hostility
Negative Symptoms
- Blunted affect
- Emotional withdrawal
- Poor rapport
- Passive/apathetic social withdrawal
- Difficulty in abstract thinking
- Lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation
- Stereotyped thinking
General Psychopathology
- Somatic concern
- Anxiety
- Guilt feelings
- Tension
- Mannerisms and posturing
- Depression
- Motor retardation
- Uncooperativeness
- Unusual thought content
- Disorientation
- Poor attention
- Lack of judgment and insight
- Disturbance of volition
- Poor impulse control
- Preoccupation
- Active social avoidance
Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS)
Hallucinations
- Auditory Hallucinations
- Voices Commenting
- Voices Conversing
- Somatic or Tactile Hallucinations
- Olfactory Hallucinations
- Visual Hallucinations
- Global Rating of Severity of Hallucinations
Delusions
- 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
- 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
- Derailment (loose associations)
- Tangentiality
- Incoherence (Word salad, Schizophasia)
- Illogicality
- Circumstantiality
- Pressure of speech
- Distractible speech
- Clanging
- Global Rating of Positive Formal Thought Disorder
Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)
Affective Flattening or Blunting
- Unchanging Facial Expression
- Decreased Spontaneous Movements
- Paucity of Expressive Gestures
- Poor Eye Contact
- Affective Nonresponsivity
- Lack of Vocal Inflections
- Global Rating of Affective Flattening
- Inappropriate Affect
Alogia
- Poverty of Speech
- Poverty of Content of Speech
- Blocking
- Increased Latency of Response
- Global Rating of Alogia
Avolition – Apathy
- Grooming and Hygiene
- Impersistence at Work or School
- Physical Anergia
- Global Rating of Avolition – Apathy
Anhedonia – Asociality
- Recreational Interests and Activities
- Sexual Interest and Activity
- Ability to Feel Intimacy and Closeness
- Relationships with Friends and Peers
- Global Rating of Anhedonia-Asociality
Attention
- Social Inattentiveness
- Inattentiveness During Mental Status Testing
- Global Rating of Attention
- Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS)
Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS)
- Anhedonia
- Distress
- Asociality
- Avolition
- Blunted affect
- Alogia