The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a 53-item screener for mental health problems. There are nine Symptom Scales, one of which is the 6-item Depression scale, and three composite Global Indices. Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicating more severe psychological symptoms.
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a 53-item-self-report instrument. It is a short alternative to the complete Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). The BSI was designed to assess psychological symptoms during the last 7 days in medical patients, non-patients, and subjects for experimental studies. It can be used in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, and it can measure chronological sequences as well as pre- and post-ratings.
The BSI is composed of nine primary symptom dimensions (somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism). It includes three global indices of distress (Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index, and Positive Symptom Total), which measure the overall psychological distress level, the intensity of symptoms, and the number of self-reported symptoms. Each item of individual psychological stress can be answered on a 5-point scale,...