Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) at a glance
What it is: The Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) is a Public Health Service form of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health.
Who signs: Under RATER, enter the rater, and enter the Date.
A filled-in Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) example: a rater fills in the first column
How to fill out Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), box by box
Name, date and prescribing practitioner
Fill in NAME, DATE and Prescribing Practitioner.
RATER and Date
Under RATER, enter the rater, and enter the Date.
More rules for Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)
INSTRUCTIONS: Complete Examination Procedure (attachment d.) before making ratings. MOVEMENT RATINGS: Rate highest severity observed. Rate movements that occur upon activation one less than those observed spontaneously. Circle movement as well as code number that applies. CODE: 0 = None, 1 = Minimal, may be extreme normal, 2 = Mild, 3 = Moderate, 4 - Severe.
Under Facial and Oral Movements: 1. Muscles of Facial Expression, e.g. movements of forehead, eyebrows periorbital area, cheeks, including frowning blinking, smiling, grimacing.
2. Lips and Perioral Area, e.g., puckering, pouting, smacking.
3. Jaw, e.g. biting, clenching, chewing, mouth opening, lateral movement.
For 4. Tongue, rate only increases in movement both in and out of mouth, NOT inability to sustain movement.
For 5. Upper (arms, wrists,, hands, fingers), DO NOT INCLUDE TREMOR (i.e., repetitive, regular, rhythmic).
6. Lower (legs, knees, ankles, toes), e.g., lateral knee movement, foot tapping, heel dropping, foot squirming, inversion and eversion of foot.
Under Trunk Movements: 7. Neck, shoulders, hips, e.g., rocking, twisting, squirming, pelvic gyrations.
Under Global Judgments: 8. Severity of abnormal movements overall, 9. Incapacitation due to abnormal movements and 10. Patient's awareness of abnormal movements. Rate only patient's report.
Under Dental Status, mark No or Yes for 11. Current problems with teeth and/or dentures, 12. Are dentures usually worn?, 13. Edentia? and 14. Do movements disappear in sleep?
Sources
[1] Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), Public Health Service (the served file; no issuer file found) (the Official source link on this page).