Validation of the Arabic version of the "self-evaluation of negative symptoms" scale (SNS)

• Published in: BMC psychiatry Vol. 20; no. 1; p. 240
• Main Authors: Hajj, Aline, Hallit, Souheil, Chamoun, Karam, Sacre, Hala, Obeid, Sahar, Haddad, Chadia, Dollfus, Sonia, Rabbaa Khabbaz, Lydia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 14.05.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Analysis; Arabic; Care and treatment; Diagnostic Self Evaluation; Emotional behavior; Female; Genetic factors; Humans; Male; Mental disorders; Middle Aged; Negative symptoms; Patients; Principal components analysis; Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychosis; Reproducibility of Results; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - diagnosis; Schizophrenic Psychology; Self evaluation; Self-evaluation of negative symptoms scale; SNS; Social research; Statistical analysis; Translating; Validation; Variables; Lebanon; Validation; Schizophrenia; SNS; Negative symptoms; Arabic; Self-evaluation of negative symptoms scale

The self-evaluation of negative symptoms scale (SNS) is a new easy-to-use self-administered questionnaire allowing clinicians to understand the clinical and genetic factors affecting the negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. There was a need to translate and validate this scale in Arabic...