Young Mania Rating Scale
Identify the patient’s mania severity with Young Mania Rating Scales (YMRS). Click here for a free copy of our template.
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What is a Young Mania Rating Scale?
The is a reliable valid assessment tool practitioners use to check and track a patient’s manic symptoms. It’s a diagnostic questionnaire with eleven items, enumerating the core mania symptoms. This has four multiple choices per item describing their severity and corresponding scores per description.
Practitioners and researchers recommend that the answers to the test should consider the symptoms exhibited or clinical condition for the past 48 hours.
To score the scale, the practitioner may check the appropriate description and use the score assigned to that description. If the patient exhibits any features under a symptom description, they are automatically given that score. If any of these don’t hit the mark, the practitioners can give half points and write down additional observations they may have during the interview or session.
Printable Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)
Download this Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) to assess the severity of a patient’s mania.
How does it work?
Think you’ll benefit from a copy of the Young Mania Rating Scale template you can edit or fill out? Keep reading below for instructions on accessing and downloading our template.
Access the Template
To access and download our printable young mania rating scales template, you can do either of the following:
- Clicking the “Use Template” or “Download Template” button above
- Searching the “Young Mania Rating Scale” in Carepatron’s template library on our app or website
Complete the Scale
Once the necessary details are provided at the top of the page, and the guide has been reviewed, the next step is to finalize the scale. This involves selecting the suitable description and its corresponding score according to the client's subjective report of their observations. The practitioner is permitted to use half-points when assessing the client's condition.
Interpret the Scores
The final step is to add the scores obtained per number and interpret the final score. Here’s a quick list of what each score range may indicate in a patient:
- Less than or equal to 12 = remission
- 13 -19 = minimal symptoms
- 20 - 25 = mild mania
- 26 - 37 = moderate mania
- 38 - 60 = severe mania
Feel free to write additional notes or observations in the dedicated space at the bottom of the template’s page.
Secure and Store
Once done, ensure the completed template is securely stored. This can be done by keeping it in a safe physical location or using a HIPAA-compliant Electronic Health Record (EHR) system such as Carepatron.
Young Mania Rating Scales Example (sample)
We created a Young Mania Rating Scales PDF sample wherein the fictional client has severe mania. We’ve provided this example so you may use it as a reference or for educational purposes.
View our example below or download the PDF version for free by clicking the “Download Example PDF” button above.
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When would you use this Template?
Medical health practitioners, particularly those with expertise in diagnosing mental health conditions like therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, can employ the young mania rating scale template for various purposes. These include screening for mania, determining the severity of mania, making a diagnosis based on the results, devising a treatment plan for the patient's condition or any other mental health issue that may be causing manic symptoms, and monitoring the progress of the patient's treatment.
As the responses to the test rely on the patient's self-report, it is feasible to provide the patient with a copy of the test for self-administration. Nonetheless, it is strongly recommended that a trained clinician conducts the test to ensure accurate and reliable results.
Benefits
Quick Assessment Tool
The Free Young Mania Rating Scale is a quick assessment tool practitioners can use to check the manic state of the patient since it takes only around 15 to 30 minutes for one to complete the scale.
Reliable
Since the Young Mania Rating Scale is known for its validity and reliability, multiple medical practitioners worldwide utilize this scale and their corresponding templates when checking their patients.
Easy to Use
Another reason why medical practitioners prefer this rating scale is because it’s easy to use. No complicated instructions or additional equipment are needed for this scale.. Furthermore, the descriptions provided are simple to understand.
Compare Over Time
One of the best things about the Young Mania Rating Scale and its template is that you can use it to compare your patient’s manic states over some time. This is especially useful if you plan to track the effectiveness of your patient’s treatment plan or medication.
Why use Carepatron as your Young Mania Rating Scale app?
Thousands of therapists can benefit from Carepatron’s features and tools, and you can too!
Using our software or mobile and desktop-friendly app, you won’t only be able to access, download, complete, and store your Young Mania Rating Scale, but you can do so much more. With Carepatron, you can improve the caliber of your practice when you’re doing the following:
Controlling your Schedule
You can control your schedule with our app by allowing your patient to request their appointments independently, integrate your work calendar with ours, and send automated reminders of your clients’ appointments via SMS and email.
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On our software, you will find the Young Mania Rating Scale and over 700 PDF downloadable, editable, and printable templates of medical documents. We also have a scanner and uploader you can use to add any personal documents or other clinical documents you may need to Carepatron.
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References
Kongsakon, R., & Bhatanaprabhabhan, D. (2005). Validity and reliability of the Young Mania Rating Scale: Thai version. Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet, 88(11), 1598–1604.
Park, S. C., & Choi, J. (2016). Using the Young Mania Rating Scale for Identifying Manic Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia. Yonsei medical journal, 57(5), 1298–1299. https://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2016.57.5.1298
Samara, M., Levine, S., & Leucht, S. (2022). Linkage of Young Mania Rating Scale to Clinical Global Impression Scale to Enhance Utility in Clinical Practice and Research Trials. Pharmacopsychiatry, 56(01), 18-24. doi: 10.1055/a-1841-6672
Serrano, E., Ezpeleta, L., Alda, J. A., Matalí, J. L., & San, L. (2011). Psychometric properties of the Young Mania Rating Scale for the identification of mania symptoms in Spanish children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychopathology, 44(2), 125–132. https://doi.org/10.1159/000320893
Youngstrom, E. A., Danielson, C. K., Findling, R. L., Gracious, B. L., & Calabrese, J. R. (2002). Factor structure of the Young Mania Rating Scale for use with youths ages 5 to 17 years. Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53, 31(4), 567–572. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15374424JCCP3104_15
Commonly asked questions
Clients may use it to determine the severity of their mania since the test can be self-administered. However, those who may find it the most useful are mental health practitioners such as therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists.
You can use the Young Mania Rating Scale to screen the patient’s symptoms, track the progress, and check the effectivity of a patient’s treatment plan or medication.
Ideally, it should take only around 15 to 30 minutes to complete.
