A mental status exam is a core component of the psychiatric examination. The mental status exam is the combination of clinicians’ base on objective observations and patients depend on subjective descriptions. The mental status exam is the valuation of the patient's cognitive skills, appearance, mood feelings, affect, words, and thoughts style.
The mental status exam is a structured assessment of the patient's behavioral and cognitive functioning. The mental status exam observes about the patient's appearance and overt physical behavior, attire, posture, expressions, and the level of awareness and concentration of surrounding. Moreover, the mental status exam describe about the rate of speech, process and content of thought,