2022
Measuring Voluntary Control Over Hallucinations: The Yale Control Over Perceptual Experiences (COPE) Scales
Mourgues C, Hammer A, Fisher V, Kafadar E, Quagan B, Bien C, Jaeger H, Thomas R, Sibarium E, Negreira AM, Sarisik E, Polisetty V, Eken H, Imtiaz A, Niles H, Sheldon AD, Powers AR. Measuring Voluntary Control Over Hallucinations: The Yale Control Over Perceptual Experiences (COPE) Scales. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2022, 48: 673-683. PMID: 35089361, PMCID: PMC9077437, DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbab144.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAuditory verbal hallucinationsPositive clinical outcomesClinical outcomesPilot studyQuality of lifeConvergent validityFrequent auditory verbal hallucinationsExperiences ScaleClinical measuresConventional treatmentNovel interventionsSymptom severitySignificant distressClinical scalesComprehensive batteryPsychosis-spectrum diagnosisVerbal hallucinationsSound psychometric propertiesAVH contentVoluntary controlPsychometric propertiesHallucinationsControl ScaleValidation studyIntervention
2019
Reliability, Validity, Epidemiology, and Cultural Variation of the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes (SIPS) and the Scale of Psychosis-Risk Symptoms (SOPS)
Woods S, Walsh B, Powers A, McGlashan T. Reliability, Validity, Epidemiology, and Cultural Variation of the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes (SIPS) and the Scale of Psychosis-Risk Symptoms (SOPS). 2019, 85-113. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17336-4_5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPsychosis risk syndromePsychosis risk symptomsClinical high-risk syndromeHigh-risk syndromeStructured interviewsInter-rater reliabilityCHR casesSeverity ScaleSIPS diagnosesEpidemiology studiesTotal scoreSyndromeSymptom subtypesCHR sampleFavorable psychometric propertiesSymptomsPsychometric propertiesDiagnostic instrumentDiscriminant validityMedian inter-rater reliabilityGeneral itemsEpidemiologyPrevalencePsychosisSubtypes