Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS)

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

? 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 5th-grade reading level, the SIMS has demonstrated very good utility in identifying malingering across multiple studies.