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A brief method of assessing communication in psychiatric patients

Year: 1993

Type: article

Abstract: The Brief Communication Battery is a 10–15 minute instrument used to screen receptive and expressive grammar and semantics, discourse, reading, writing, and speech production of 31 healthy subjects and 82 patients. Alzheimer's disease (AD), schizophrenic (SZ) and Huntington (HD) patients scored significantly lower than normal subjects, revealing communication difficulties in patients who are not classically aphasic and in patients with Mini-Mental Status Exam scores in the normal range (SZ, HD). The BCB proved to be a reliable and provisionally valid instrument for screening communication.

Source: Journal of Psychiatric Research

DOI: 10.1016/0022-3956(93)90066-b

Authors: Rebecca Landa, Karen Swartz, Marshal Folstein

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,320