Development and Validation of a Scale for Rating Mood States of Psychiatric Inpatients

Rating and quantification of manic syndromes

“…Mazmanian and coworkers designed the Mania‐Depression Scale (MDS) (Scale 9) with the idea of obtaining an instrument with the following characteristics: uniqueness for both poles of the illness, ease of use and speed of completion, sensitivity to daily variations and treatment effects (63). They also wanted an instrument that would allow the assessment of combined states.…”

“…As we have said, and in view of the abundance of the scales available, it is appropriate to observe that researchers could improve their results if they used more than one scale and more than one measurement concept (applied by clinicians, nursing staff, self‐rating tests, pencil‐and‐paper, VAS, etc. (3, 63).…”

“…For nursing personnel, the Manchester Nurse Rating Scale by Brierley and coworkers is a very valid and hopeful offering, easy to administer, short and reliable. If what is wanted is to measure both poles of the illness, the offering available includes the Mania‐Depression Scale (63).…”

Desenvolvimento da versão em português da Escala de Avaliação de Mania de Bech-Rafaelsen (EAM-BR)

“…Esta escala foi concebida para ser administrada por enfermeiras que observassem pacientes maní-acos em Unidades de Internação psiquiátrica. Desde então, surgiram mais três escalas de avaliação de pacientes maníacos para serem administradas por enfermeiras [2][3][4] . Surgiram também cinco escalas para avaliação do estado maníaco para serem administradas por clíni-cos [5][6][7][8][9] e, ainda, uma escala para avaliação conjunta por clínicos e enfermeiras 10 .…”