SIMS™

Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology™

Purpose: Screens for malingered psychopathology and cognitive symptoms

Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration, Software

Age range: 18 years to 99 years

Time: 10-15 minutes

DETAILS:

The SIMS is a 75-item, true-or-false screening instrument that assesses both malingered psychopathology and neuropsychological symptoms.

Features and Benefits

• Can be used as part of a battery of tests to provide convergent evidence of malingering.

• Recommended as part of a comprehensive approach to any evaluation in which alternative hypotheses for response patterns should be considered.

• Provides five scale domains—Psychosis, Low Intelligence, Neurologic Impairment, Affective Disorders, and Amnestic Disorders—as well as an overall score for probable malingering.

• Demonstrates sensitivity, specificity, and efficacy across both simulation and known-groups designs with honest responders, psychiatric patients, and clinical malingerers.

• Written at a fifth-grade reading level, the SIMS has demonstrated very good utility in identifying malingering across multiple studies.