SIMS (Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology)

The Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) is a psychometric test that measures neurological and psychiatric symptoms amplification. This tool is used both for clinical and forensic purposes.[1] It can provide presumptive indication of malingering, that must be tested by other assessment tools.

The SIMS is a self-report screening questionnaire made of 75 dichotomic items (true/false). From a psychometric point of view, this tool shows a high degree of sensitivity and specificity.[2]

The SIMS has been translated into many European languages: German,[3] Italian,[4] Spanish,[5] and Dutch.[6]

This test has also been used to investigate, in medical-legal and forensic contexts, the distorting impact that the evaluative context itself exerts on the tendency of subjects with mental psychopathology (psychosis) to amplify or not the self-reported symptoms.[7]

Note

  1. ↑ G. P. Smith, G. K. Burger. Detection of malingering: Validation of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS). Journal of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 25 (1997), pp. 180–183
  2. ↑ Merckelbach (2013). "De Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS): Een update" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie.
  3. ↑ German Version
  4. ↑ Italian version
  5. ↑ Spanish version
  6. ↑ Dutch version
  7. ↑ Montrone, Alessandro; Martino, Vito; Grattagliano, Ignazio; Massaro, Ylenia; Campobasso, Filippo; Lisi, Andrea; Di Conza, Angiola; Catanesi, Roberto (2016). "L’uso del test sims nella valutazione psicodiagnostica delle condotte distorsive: la simulazione. Uno studio pilota." [Use of the SIMS test in psychological assessment of distorting behavior: simulation. A pilot study.]. Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia [Italian Journal of Criminology] (in Italian). 48 (2): 139–145. ISSN 2240-8053. Retrieved 2017-06-02.

Bibliography

G. P. Smith, G. K. Burger. Detection of malingering: Validation of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS). Journal of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 25 (1997), pp. 180–183

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