Brief Screening for Family Psychiatric History: The Family History Screen

Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies.The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a group, the administrative time is 5 to 20 minutes, depending on family size...