The AQ-20 uses a vignette to measure attitudes about people with schizophrenia. The instrument has four subscales: attitudes of fear and dangerousness, attitudes toward help and interaction; attitudes regarding forcing treatment, and attitudes of negative emotions. Each item is scored on a Likert-type scale from 1 to 9 with higher scores meaning greater endorsement of negative attitudes. The AQ-20 was refined by Brown (2008) from an original 27-item questionnaire developed by Corrigan and colleagues (2004). Psychometric properties of the original AQ-27 were never published, but Brown found a 20-item version