malingering

Introduction

Pretending to be ill or injured for secondary gain, i.e. disability, sympathy etc.

• Slick criteria:
  • evidence of exaggeration of fabrication on neuropsychological tests
  • external incentive for fabricating or exaggerating symptoms
  • self-reported evidence, such as discrepancies
  • criteria not accounted for by neurologic, psychiatric, or developmental factors
• traumatic brain injury
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) & Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29)
• sickle cell disease is over-represented among those characterized as malingering

More general terms

• sign/symptom