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Purpose
Screens for malingered psychopathology and cognitive symptoms
Authors
Glenn P. Smith, PhD; Professional Manual by Michelle R. Widows, PhD, and Glenn P. Smith, PhD
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Additional Details
Screening Tool for the Detection of Feigned or Exaggerated Psychiatric Disturbance and Cognitive Dysfunction in Adults
The SIMS is a 75-item, true-or-false screening instrument that assesses both malingered psychopathology and neuropsychological symptoms.
Features and benefits
- Can be used as part of a battery of tests to provide convergent evidence of malingering.
- Recommended as part of a comprehensive approach to any evaluation in which alternative hypotheses for response patterns should be considered.
- Provides five scale domains—Psychosis, Low Intelligence, Neurologic Impairment, Affective Disorders, and Amnestic Disorders—as well as an overall score for probable malingering.
- Demonstrates sensitivity, specificity, and efficacy across both simulation and known-groups designs with honest responders, psychiatric patients, and clinical malingerers.
- Written at a fifth-grade reading level, the SIMS has demonstrated very good utility in identifying malingering across multiple studies.
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