Use of the NOSIE-30 behavioral rating scale in hospitals for the mentally ill and retarded

✍ Scribed by Milton R. Ravensborg; David Willenson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196910)25:4<453::aid-jclp2270250434>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

F e r p FaUe (Minn.) Slde Hospital

Brainerd (Minn.) Slale Hospital PROBLEM Although several behavioral rating scales have been stardardized for use with mentally ill patients('), and a few exist for mentally retarded patients(*), a search of the literature disclosed none which had been validated on both populations.

The NOSIE-30(*) contains six factor-analytically derived subscales : Social Competence (COM) ; Social Interest (INT) ; Personal Neatness (NEA) ; Irritability (IRR) ; Manifest Psychosis (PSY) ; (psychomotor) Retardation (RET). The first three reflect positive, and the last three, negative, behavioral dimensions. In addition, the scale provides a global Total Patient Assets (TPA) score. However, the NOSIE30 was standardized only on male, mentally ill veteran patients.

This paper reports the results of applying the NOSIE30 to patients of both sexes at one state mental hospital (MI : Fergus Falls) and one state hospital for the retarded (MR: Brainerd). Also, because hyperactivity of patients on hospital wards is a recurrent management problem, the ability of the NOSIE30 to discriminate hyperactive patients from others in both populations was tested.