SCALES — Load ZGF/COPE/HAMD/PANSS/SSCL16/SANS questionnaire data

Loads ZGF, COPE, HAMD, PANSS, SSCL16, and SANS questionnaire data from standard files as generated by the internet-based "Zurich Questionnaire Forms", available for all the above instruments. Subsequently, syndrome scores are computed and optionally stored in databank. Specifically, Master.VOX supports syndrome-oriented approaches to psychopatholog which replace the mere yes-no dichotomy of diagnostic classification schemes by dimensional quantities and represent a valuable extension of operational criteria. Patients are described in terms of multidimensional feature vectors, thus avoiding the considerable loss of information inherent in diagnostic schemes. Syndrome-oriented approaches are well suited to resolve, for example, the fine gradations of within-pair concordance of monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for schizophrenia, or the mutual differences of intra-family psychic abnormalities that must not reach diagnostic significance.

            Specificationlist:      SCALES
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            I4 INST                      0  Default-value
            I4 PROT                      0  Default-value
            I4 SAVE                      0  Default-value
            I4 LGIN              Undefined
            R4 PMAX                20.0000  Default-value
 
            01 INST Selects instrument to be processed
            02 PROT Controls printer output
            03 SAVE Controls storage in databank
            04 LGIN Logical unit number of input-device
            05 PMAX Maximum percentage of missing data that is permissible
            06 DEMO Examples that illustrate program function
 
 
            - INST = 0: Zurich Health Questionnaire ZGF
                        Sets VOX-Scales 1-5: sex,age,education,height,weight
                   = 1: Coping Strategies Inventory COPE
                   = 2: Hamilton Depression Scale HAMD
                   = 3: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale PANSS
                   = 4: SADS Syndrome Check List SSCL16
                   = 5: SADS Syndrome Check List Supplement SSCL-SUPPL
                   = 6: Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms SANS
 
            - PROT = 0: No print output
                   = 1: Detailed protocol
                   = 2: Mean values and standard deviations
 
            - SAVE = 0: Data are to be analyzed but not stored in databank
                   = 1: Data are stored in databank (existing data kept)
                   = 2: Data are stored in databank (existing data replaced)
 
            - LGIN = q: Logical unit number of input-device (standard=6;
                        valid numbers are 46-96)
 
            - PMAX = p: Maximum percentage of missing data that is permissible
 
 
            - DEMO: Familial Syndrome Patterns in Psychiatry
 
           

Example

 
            &&START SCALES=Normative speech study zurich (study 600)
             INST=0,PROT=3,LGIN=72