ArticlePloS one2021
The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-Positive scale (CAPE-P15) accurately classifies and differentiates psychotic experience levels in adolescents from the general population.
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- Validation of the Arabic Language Version of the Shortest Form of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE-9) in a Young Adult Population-Based Sample.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Multi-domain destructuring in the early phases of psychosis: a multicentric phenomenological and psychometric case-control study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Psychological and social difficulties in young non-help-seeking adolescents at risk for psychosis: insights from a large cohort study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A Latent Profile Analysis of Psychotic Experiences, Non-psychotic Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation and Underlying Mechanisms in a Sample of Adolescents From the General Population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Cognitive functioning in a group of adolescents at risk for psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is increasing interest in studying psychotic symptoms in non-clinical populations, with the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-Positive scale (CAPE-P15) being one of the self-screening questionnaires used most commonly for this purpose. Further research is needed to evaluate the ability of the scale to accurately identify and classify positive psychotic experiences (PE) in the general population.
aimTo provide psychometric evidence about the accuracy of the CAPE-P15 for detecting PE in a sample of Chilean adolescents from the general population and classifying them according to their PE severity levels.
methodWe administered the CAPE-P15 to a general sample of 1594 students aged 12 to 19. Based on Item Response Theory (IRT), we tested the accuracy of the instrument using two main parameters: difficulty and discrimination power of the 15 items.
resultsWe found that the scale provides very accurate information about PE, particularly for high PE levels. The items with the highest capability to determine the presence of the latent trait were those assessing perceptual anomalies (auditory and visual hallucinations), bizarre experiences (a double has taken the place of others; being controlled by external forces), and persecutory ideation (conspiracy against me).
conclusionsThe CAPE-P15 is an accurate and suitable tool to screen PE and to accurately classify and differentiate PE levels in adolescents from the general population. Further research is needed to better understand how maladaptive psychological mechanisms influence relationships between PE and suicidal ideation (SI) in the general population.
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