Clinical usefulness of the screen for cognitive impairment in psychiatry (SCIP-S) scale in patients with type I bipolar disorder

Abstract

Background: The relevance of persistent cognitive deficits to the pathogenesis and prognosis of bipolar disorders (BD) is understudied, and its translation into clinical practice has been limited by the absence of brief methods assessing cognitive status in Psychiatry. This investigation assessed the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP-S) for the detection of cognitive impairment in BD.

Brief cognitive assessment instruments in schizophrenia and bipolar patients, and healthy control subjects: A comparison study between the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (B-CATS) and the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP)

“…The original English version of the SCIP and its Spanish translation (the SCIP-S) show good equivalence of their three alternate forms, good internal consistency, and good test-retest reliability in both healthy control and clinical samples (Pino et al, 2008;Purdon, 2005). In addition, the SCIP-S seems to be a valid instrument for the detection of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia (Pino et al, 2008;Rojo et al, 2010) and type I bipolar disorder (Guilera et al, 2009). The SCIP and the B-CATS are pen and pencil instruments, with an average administration time of between 12 and 15 min.…”

“…Examples are the Brief Cognitive Assessment (BCA) (Velligan et al, 2004), the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP) (Purdon, 2005); and the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (B-CATS) (Hurford et al, 2009). These all are simple and easy-to-administer instruments that require minimal additional equipment and have shown good psychometric properties (Guilera et al, 2009;Hurford et al, 2009;Pino et al, 2008;Purdon, 2005;Rojo et al, 2010;Velligan et al, 2004). Until their advent, there were no such instruments designed for detecting cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders in only 15 min per patient.…”

“…Samples were extracted from two original studies, with detailed methods previously reported (Guilera et al, 2009;Pino et al, 2008). The sample reported here was composed of all subjects from either study who had complete data for all cognitive measures of interest, excluding two bipolar patients with highly unusual values (i.e., time to complete the TMT-B more than 6 min).…”

Optimising screening for cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder: Validation and evaluation of objective and subjective tools

“…Recent studies provide emerging evidence for good validity, reliability and sensitivity of the SCIP for detection of cognitive impairment in BD (Guilera et al, 2009;Purdon, 2005;Rojo et al, 2010) and warrant further investigation of the SCIP as a new screening tool for cognitive dysfunction in these patients. Further, the Cognitive Complaints in Bipolar Disorder Rating Assessment (COBRA; Rosa et al, 2013) is a newly developed self-report measure that examines the cognitive difficulties that patients with BD experience in their daily lives (Rosa et al, 2013).…”

Preventing falls in In-Patient Older Adult Mental Health Services: Different Causative Factors in Mental and Neurocognitive Disorders

“…It is anticipated that by the year 2030, 20% of the Australian population will be aged over 65 years [1]. As the population of Australia ages the number of older adults living with a mental disorder will also increase [2].…”