Huxley, Peter and Reilly, Siobhan and Gater, R. and Robinshaw, Eva and Harrison, J. and Mohamad, Hadi and Butler, T. and Windle, Barry (2000) Matching resources to care : the acceptability, validity and inter-rater reliability of a new instrument to assess severe mental illness (MARC-1). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 35 (7). pp. 312-317. ISSN 0933-7954
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Most definitions of severe mental illness (SMI) are categorical and assign the patient to either SMI or not-SMI status. While this is useful for some purposes, it is a rather limited approach. The purpose of the present study is to develop a new method of addressing the issue of 'severity', and to develop a dimensional rather than a categorical approach. The paper reports on the acceptability, reliability and validity of a method developed to collect a standard set of data covering the majority of items specified in the academic and policy literature as characterising SMI.