خلاصة:
Objective: The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Young Mania Rating Scale.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 65 patients with bipolar I disorder in the manic phase and 145 healthy individuals. The patients were selected from the Razi Psychiatric Hospital and Taleghani Hospital, while the controls were selected from the general population of Tehran, using a purposive sampling method. Data were collected using the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) and analyzed using SPSS-23 and AMOS-24.
Results: Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure for the YMRS. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.72 indicated the acceptable reliability of YMRS. The cut-off point, sensitivity, and specificity of the YMRS were found to be 12.5, 0.93, and 0.96, respectively.
Conclusion: According to the study results, YMRS showed adequate psychometric properties in the Iranian population. Therefore, it can be considered as a valuable instrument in screening patients with bipolar disorder in the manic phase.
ملخص الجهاز:
Research Paper: Psychometric Properties of the Young Mania Rating Scale as a Mania Severity Measure in Patients With Bipolar I Disorder Zahra Mohammadi1, Abbas Pourshahbaz1* /, Marjan Poshtmashhadi1 /, Behrooz Dolatshahi1 /, Fatemeh Barati1, Majid Zarei1 1.
{مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} /: Funding: See Page 180 / Copyright: The Author(s) Article info: Received: 01 Feb 2018 First Revision: 15 Feb 2018 Accepted: 13 May 2018 Published: 01 Jul 2018 Keywords: Bipolar disorder, Mania, Psychometric properties ABSTRACT Objective: The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Young Mania Rating Scale.
Data were collected using the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) and analyzed using SPSS-23 and AMOS-24.
Studies on psychometric properties of the Thai, French, Turkish, and Spanish versions of the YMRS indicated acceptable validity and reliability of the scale and its applicability for assessing the severity of the mania symptoms (Kongsakon & Bhatanaprabhabhan, 2005; Favre et al.
Given that the main objective of the present study was to determine the number of mania factors according to the dimensional model of DSM-5, the necessity of examining the psychometric character-istics of the YMRS in patients with bipolar I disorder in the manic phase becomes clear.
Overall, the study results showed that the YMRS ex-hibited appropriate psychometric properties in assess-ing the severity of mania symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder, and its use is recommended for the following reasons: 1.