- Screening measure of general psychiatric symptomatology
- Items include dimensions measuring somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism
- Can be used to screen for psychiatric disorders and has been found useful in quantifying a variety of emotional reactions in adults following SCI
Clinical Considerations
- The SCL-90-R is best used to screen for global psychological distress
- This questionnaire has received much research attention and as a result, normative scores are available for a variety of patient and non-patient populations
- The instrument requires a reading knowledge equivalent to that of a sixth-grade education
ICF Domain
Body Function ▶ Mental Functions