[An examination of the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric subjects].

OBJECTIVE

To examine the self-reported scale of brief psychopathological symptoms (SBPS) to detect malingering in forensic psychiatric cases.

METHODS

Two hundred and six cases with different types of psychiatric problems were tested by SBPS. All cases were separately evaluated by two experts.

RESULTS

About 34.5% cases (71/206) were classified as malingering by the cut-off 13 scores of SBPS. Compared with expert's evaluation, SBPS showed a false negative rate of 19.8% and a false positive rate of 1.7%, respectively, with a total accuracy rate of 90.8%. Cases involved in compensations including working injury and traffic accidence showed the highest rate of malingering (51%).

CONCLUSION

SBPS is useful for detecting malingering psychopathological symptoms.