Bahrain Schizophrenia screening scale [BSSS]: a new self-rating questionnaire

The Bahrain Schizophrenia Screening Scale [BSSS] was designed as a self-rating scale to screen possible schizophrenic patients in the community. Testing the scale on a sample of normal population, schizophrenic patients, and a control group of affective disorders patients showed that the scale had a 99% sensitivity and 92.5% specificity