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Original Articles

Establishing the cut-off scores for the severity ranges of schizophrenia on the BPRS-6 scale: findings from the REAP-AP

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Pages 895-898 | Received 23 Jul 2019, Accepted 17 Nov 2019, Published online: 23 Dec 2019

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