PMID- 9061261
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970624
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0010-3853 (Print)
IS  - 0010-3853 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 1
DP  - 1997 Feb
TI  - The GAF and psychiatric outcome: a descriptive report.
PG  - 35-41
AB  - Since the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF) was introduced in 
      DSM-III-R in 1987, it has been widely used, but minimally researched. This report 
      provides information concerning the use of the GAF in routine clinical practice. 
      Clinicians rated adult inpatients, adult day hospital patients, and adolescent 
      inpatients at admission and discharge from psychiatric treatment. All samples 
      were rated as significantly less dysfunctional at discharge. There were also 
      significant differences in mean levels of dysfunction between the adult and 
      adolescent samples at admission and discharge. These discrepancies were 
      hypothesized to be associated with the GAFs unclear instructional format. 
      Although this study concerned the GAF as described in the DSM-III-R, our findings 
      are likely to be generalizable to DSM-IV, because no substantive changes have 
      been made to the GAF.
FAU - Piersma, H L
AU  - Piersma HL
AD  - Pine Rest Christian Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501-0165, USA.
FAU - Boes, J L
AU  - Boes JL
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Community Ment Health J
JT  - Community mental health journal
JID - 0005735
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Day Care, Medical/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitals, Psychiatric/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Manuals as Topic/*standards
MH  - Mental Disorders/*diagnosis
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Outcome Assessment, Health Care/*standards
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/*standards
EDAT- 1997/02/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/02/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/02/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1023/a:1022413110345 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Community Ment Health J. 1997 Feb;33(1):35-41. doi: 10.1023/a:1022413110345.