Quantitative Rating of Depressive States, Correlation Between Clinical Assessment, Self‐rating Scale (Beck's Depression Inventory) and Objective Rating Scale (Ha Milton)

Abstract

We have investigated Biegel's manic-state rating scale and found the interrater *liability high when the scale was administered both by nurses and psychiatrists. In our study of validation, we tested each item of the scale for calibration, ascending momtonicity and dispersion parallel to a global clinical assessment of the manic state. Six of the scale items were then found valid and those items differed from the valid items in studies of Biegel by including increased social contact. Like Biegel, we found a positive correlation between items concerned with depressed mood, indicating a fluctuation in the mood of manic patients during 8 hours of observation. Key-words:Manic state -Biegel's rating scale.The evaluation of the validity of rating scales involves many complex problems. t , Beck's salf-rating scale, and H d t m ' s objective rating scale. Acta psychkit. scan& 51, Biegel, A., & D . L. Murphy (1971): Assmshg clinical characteristics of d c state. Biegel, A., D. L. Murphy & W . Bunney (1971): Tha maniestate rating scale. Arch. gen. Petterson, U., B. Fyro & G . Sedvall (1973): A new scale fop the longitudinal tating of Siegel, S. (1956): Nm-parametric statistics. 16 1-170. Amm. J. Psychiat. 128, 688-694. Psychiat. 25, 256-262. manic states. Acta psychiat. scan& 49, 248-256.Per Bech, M.D.

Standardizing the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale: past, present, and future

“…More than anyone else, Per Bech has made important contributions to the literature on the HAM-D (Bech et al 1975, Bech and Rafaelsen 1980, Bech and Coppen 1990. In 1986 Bech et al published a "mini-compendium" of rating scales that included a version of the HAM-D that explicitly defined the criteria for rating each item (Bech et al 1986).…”

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Health-Related Quality of Life among a Sample of Treatment- and Pension-Seeking Deployed Canadian Forces Peacekeeping Veterans

“…39 The HDRS is also highly correlated with other clinician-rated instruments such as the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale, with correlations between 0.80 and 0.90. 40 HRQOL was assessed using the SF-36, 25 which measures functional impairment (or HRQOL). The SF-36 measures impairment in 8 domains or subscales, 4 of which relate to mental health, including vitality (a measure of energy level and fatigue), social functioning (the extent to which physical health or emotional problems have interfered with social activities), role emotional (difficulties in work or daily activities owing to emotional problems), and mental health (a measure of the degree of anxiety, depression, and of positive emotional states, such as feeling calm, peaceful, and happy).…”

The Spanish version of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report (QIDS-SR16): A psychometric analysis in a clinical sample

“…A number of such instruments can be of high importance in research and especially in real-world clinical practice where brief, psychometrically-sound, easy to administer and score, and cost-effective tools are highly appreciated and much needed. However, only some of them cover the 9 symptom criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) according to DSM-IV, such as the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; Beck et al, 1996;Wang and Gorenstein, 2013), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; Kroenke et al, 2001;Spitzer et al, 1999), the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report (QIDS-SR 16 ; time-efficient tool-mirroring the six-item version of the Hamilton Rating Scale (Bech et al, 1975(Bech et al, , 1981 but focusing only on the nine DSM-IV symptom criteria required to diagnose MDD-for gauging depressive symptom severity. The scale includes 16 items that assess 9 symptom domains.…”