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    Side effects & movement

    Licensed instrument

    UKU: scoring, cutoffs & interpretation

    Clinician-rated psychotropic side-effect scale. Rights being confirmed.

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    The clinician's brief

    What this scale measures.

    The UKU rates a broad range of side effects across psychic, neurological, autonomic and other domains, together with a global assessment of how far the side effects interfere with the patient's daily life.

    How scoring works.

    Each side effect is rated 0 to 3 for severity and judged as unlikely, possibly or probably related to the medication. The scale is used to track side-effect burden over time rather than to produce a single cut-off score.

    How licensing works.

    The UKU Side Effect Rating Scale (Lingjaerde et al., 1987) is widely reproduced, but it was published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and Wiley may hold the copyright, so commercial digital rights are undocumented. We are confirming permission before hosting it.

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