Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms
Within psychological testing, the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms is a rating scale to measure positive symptoms in schizophrenia. The scale was developed by Nancy Andreasen and was first published in 1984. SAPS is split into 4 domains, and within each domain separate symptoms are rated from 0 to 5. The scale is closely linked to the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) which was published a few years earlier.
Items
Hallucinations
- Auditory Hallucinations
- Voices Commenting
- Voices Conversing
- Somatic or Tactile Hallucinations
- Olfactory Hallucinations
- Visual Hallucinations
- Global Rating of Severity of Hallucinations
Delusions
- Persecutory Delusions
- Delusions of Jealousy
- Delusions of Sin or Guilt
- Grandiose Delusions
- Religious Delusions
- Somatic Delusions
- Ideas and Delusions of Reference
- Delusions of Being Controlled
- Delusions of Mind Reading
- Thought Broadcasting
- Thought Insertion
- Thought Withdrawal
- Global Rating of Severity of Delusions
Bizarre Behaviour
- Clothing and Appearance
- Social and Sexual Behavior
- Aggressive and Agitated Behavior
- Repetitive or Stereotyped Behavior
- Global Rating of Severity of Bizarre Behavior
Positive Formal Thought Disorder
- Derailment
- Tangentiality
- Incoherence
- Illogicality
- Circumstantiality
- Pressure of speech
- Distractible speech
- Clanging
- Global Rating of Positive Formal Thought Disorder