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In clinical practice, it is necessary to provide shorter instruments.
In these circumstances, shorter instruments should be preferable.
Valid, shorter instruments are more likely to be used and completed than extensive questionnaires.
However, the predictive value of these shorter instruments remains to be demonstrated.
Further research is required to see whether the use of shorter instruments can improve data quality and response rates, but the fact that shorter instruments place less burden on the patients is itself inherently important.
In clinical practice, it is necessary to provide shorter instruments, as is already the case for other measurements such as quality of life in schizophrenia [ 18].
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The Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-S2) was designed to measure 15 EMS [13] and is a shorter instrument (75 items).
Recent development of psychometrics is more and more directed towards shorter instrument and screening questionnaires.
So, for instance, we cannot answer whether using a shorter instrument would indeed give fewer missing values.
A shorter instrument focusing on ward nursing care would have been more efficient and might have improved the response rate.
First, despite its advantage as a shorter instrument, the Mini-PANSS should not be considered as a replacement for the original scale.
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