Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) - abbreviated version

The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) assesses the presence of several psychiatric symptoms. It consists of 53 items covering nine symptom dimensions: Somatization, Obsession-Compulsion, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid ideation and Psychoticism; and three global indices of distress: Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index, and Positive Symptom Total. The global indices measure current or past level of symptomatology, intensity of symptoms, and number of reported symptoms, respectively.

In Generation R, the following subscales were assessed: anxiety (6 items), depression (6 items), hostility (5 items), interpersonal sensitivity (4 items), obsessive-compulsive (6 items), psychoticism (5 items), paranoia (5 items), phobia (5 items), and somatization (7 items). At 20 weeks of gestation and at 2 months postnatally, the full BSI was administered (total of 53 items). Hence, a Global Severity Index can also be calculated, i.e., the sum of all BSI items. At 6 months, 3 years, 10 years and 18 years, we only administered anxiety, depression, hostility, and interpersonal sensitivity (i.e., total of 20 items). Items are rated on 5-point Likert scale.

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  • Generation R

  • Mid pregnancy
    •   MM FF
    0 months - 4 months   From 2002-01-01 to 2005-12-31
  • 2 months
    •   MM
    0 months - 6 months   From 2002-01-01 to 2006-12-31
  • 6 months
    •   MM
    4 months - 12 months   From 2002-01-01 to 2006-12-31
  • 3 years
    •   MM FF
    34 months - 4.7 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2009-12-31
  • 9-10 years
    •   MM FF
    8.7 - 12.5 years   From 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
  • 13-14 years
    •   MM
    12.5 - 16.8 years   From 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
  • 17-18 years
    •   MM FF
    17.0 - 18.0 years   From 2020-10-01 (ongoing)
  • Covid questionnaires
    •   P1P1
    14.8 - 18.4 years   From 2020-06-01 to 2020-10-31
    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual
    Instrument name Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
    Measure name Psychopathology
    References
    De Beurs, E. (2004). Brief symptom inventory. Handleiding. Leiden (Netherlands): Pits Publishers.
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