One of the most common types of symptom inventories is the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). The BSI is an instrument that evaluates psychological distress and psychiatric disorders in people. The data for the BSI is collected from the patient for the evaluation and can be used in areas such as patient progress, treatment measurements, and psychological assessment. It normally takes about 5 mins to complete and contains roughly about 53 self-report items and is scored on a 5 point Likert scale. The BSI is composed of nine primary symptom dimensions (somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism). It includes three global indices of distress (Global
