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| SCL-90-R: Administration, scoring and procedure manual -I. | Measures nine dimensions of psychiatric symptomology: somatization [SOM], obsessive-compulsive [O-C], interpersonal sensitivity [INT], depression [DEP], anxiety [ANX], hostility [HOS], phobic anxiety [PHOB], paranoid ideation [PAR] and psychoticism [PSY]. Each of the 90 items is rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale of distress, ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). Three global indices provide measures of overall psychological distress: global severity index [GSI], positive symptom distress index [PSDI] and positive symptom total [PST]. | Derogatis, L. R. (1977). SCL-90-R: Administration, scoring and procedure manual -I. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins. |
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* HIV-positive * Men * Sex workers |
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| Screening tests for geriatric depression. | The GDS is the most appropriate inventory to assess depression in older adults (Kalichman, 1998). The GDS consists of 30 items presented in a "yes/no" fashion. Items focus solely on cognitive and behavioral aspects of depression; no somatic items are included, thus avoiding overlap between depression, HIV infection, and medication side effects. A score of 0-10 indicates no depression, 11-20 mild depression, and 21-30 indicates moderate-to-severe depression. | Brink TL, Yesavage JA, Lum O, Heersema P, Adey MB, Rose TL: Screening tests for geriatric depression. Clinical Gerontologist 1: 37-44, 1982. |
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| Assessment of a new self-rating scale for post-traumatic stress disorder. | The instrument contains 17-items measuring each DSM-IV symptom of PTSD on 5-point frequency and severity scales. | Davidson, J. T., Book, S. W., Colket, J. T., Tupler, L. A., Roth, S., David, D., et al. (1997). Assessment of a new self-rating scale for post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological Medicine, 27(01), 153-160. |
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| PTSD Checklist – Civilian Version (PCL-C) | The PTSD Checklist is a 17-item self-report rating-scale instrument that correspond directly to DSM-IV criteria for PTSD. | Weathers, F.W., Litz, B. T., Huska, J. A., & Keane, T. M. (1994). The PTSD checklist-civilian version (PCL-C). Boston: National Center for PTSD, Behavioral Science Division. |
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| Multidisciplinary baseline assessment of homosexual men with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection. | The SCID-NP-HIV is a specialized edition of the SCID developed for use in a longitudinal study of the relationship between social and psychiatric factors and the outcome of HIV. This version of the SCID includes only those disorders that are common in the general community: Mood, Anxiety (panic and generalized anxiety), Adjustment, and Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders. Since distinguishing between normal and maladaptive reactions to news of HIV seropositivity was difficult, several modifications were made in the DSM-III-R criteria for adjustment disorder to reflect greater impairment. | Williams, J.B.W., Rabkin, J.G., Remien, R.H., Gorman, J.M., & Ehrhardt, A.E. (1991). Multidisciplinary baseline assessment of homosexual men with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection. Archives of General Psychiatry, 48, 124-130. |
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| The validation of a self-report measure of posttraumatic stress disorder: The posttraumatic diagnostic scale. | The instrument is designed to provide both the PTSD diagnosis and symptom severity. "The PTDS begins with a checklist of 12 traumatic events (including an "other" category) in which individuals are asked to indicate how many of these events the individual has experienced or witnessed. Next, individuals are asked to indicate which event has disturbed them the most in the past month, to briefly describe the event in a space provided, and to refer to this event when completing the subsequent sections. Criterion A is assessed by four yes-no questions inquiring about physical injury to themselves or someone else and how the individual felt at the time of the event (e.g., thinking that his or her life was in danger, thinking that someone else's life was in danger, feeling helpless or terrified). Next, individuals are asked to complete 17 items, corresponding to the DSM-IV PTSD symptoms: 5 Re-experiencing, 7 Avoidance, and 5 Arousal. The frequency of each symptom in the past month is rated on a 4-point scale (0 - not at all or only one time; 3 = five or more times a week/almost always). These items were modified from the PSS-SR to correspond with DSM-IV criteria and to increase clarity for individuals with a lower reading level. To address DSM-IV Criterion F, the last section of the scale includes nine items assessing impairment in different life areas (i.e., work, household duties, friendships, leisure activities, schoolwork, family relationships, sex life, general satisfaction with life, overall level of functioning) within the past month, using a yes-no format." The following are the items examples: "Having bad dreams or nightmares about the traumatic event," ' 'Experiencing physical reactions when you were reminded of the traumatic event (for example, breaking out in a sweat, heart beating fast)," 'Trying not to think about, talk about, or have feelings about the traumatic event," "Having much less interest or participating much less often in important activities," "Feeling irritable or having fits of anger," and "Being jumpy or easily startled (for example, when someone walks up behind you)." | Foa, E. B., Cashman, L., Jaycox, L., & Perry, K. (1997). The validation of a self-report measure of posttraumatic stress disorder: The posttraumatic diagnostic scale. Psychological Assessment, 9(4), 445-451. |
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| Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) | The PHQ is "a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders". "At 9 items, the PHQ depression scale (which we call the PHQ-9) is half the length of many other depression measures, has comparable sensitivity and specificity, and consists of the actual nine criteria on which the diagnosis of DSM-IV depressive disorders is based. The latter feature distinguishes the PHQ-9 from other two-step depression measures for which, when scores are high, additional questions must be asked to establish DSM-IV depressive diagnoses. The PHQ-9 is thus a dual-purpose instrument that, with the same nine items, can establish provisional depressive disorder diagnoses as well as grade depressive symptom severity." The scale questions ask about symptoms within the last two weeks. The response options vary from "not at all" to "nearly every day". | Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. B. W. (2001). The PHQ-9. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(9), 606-613. |
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| Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) | The instrument is a self-assessment scale which was "developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic." It takes 2-5 minutes to complete. | Zigmond, A. S., & Snaith, R. P. (1983). The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 67(6), 361. Snaith, R. P. (2003). The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 1, 29. |
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| Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) | The scale contains 20 items which are "constructed on the basis of the clinical diagnostic criteria most commonly used to characterize depressive disorders". Ten items are worded symptomatically positive, and ten items are worded symptomatically negative. Response options are 1-4 from "a little of the time" to "most of the time". | Zung, W. W., Richards, C. B., & Short, M. J. (1965). Self-rating depression scale in an outpatient clinic: Further validation of the SDS. Archives of General Psychiatry, 13(6), 508-515. |
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| A rating scale for depression. | This is a clinician-administered scale for measuring depressive symptoms in the past week. "The scale contains 17 variables (see Appendix I). Some are defined in terms of a series of categories of increasing intensity, while others are defined by a number of equal-valued terms." | Hamilton, M. (1960). A rating scale for depression. |
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| Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale | The Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale. A test-retest reliability study conducted on a series of psychiatric Inpatients demonstrated that the use of the SIGH-D results In a substantially Improved level of agreement for most of the HDRS Items. | Williams, J. B. (1988). A structured interview guide for the hamilton depression rating scale. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45(8), 742-747. |
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| Depression Screener for Primary Care (PC-SAD©) | "The PC-SAD consists of 37 items: a three-item pre-screener (Appendix 1, Question 1 and 2), a 26-item MDD section (Appendix 1, Question 3a, 3c-f, Question 5, and Question 6), an eight-item dysthymia section (Question 4). The 26-item MDD section includes five questions from the Short Form-36 (SF-36, Question 3) [60], which are also included in this instrument, three of them from the MHI-5 [31]. Questions are laid out in grid formats (Appendix 1). The three-item prescreener consists of two depression questions that are closely related to the WHO depression screener, and one dysthymia question that we developed." | Rogers, W. H., Wilson, I. B., Bungay, K. M., Cynn, D. J., & Adler, D. A. (2002). Assessing the performance of a new depression screener for primary care (PC-SAD©). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 55(2), 164-175. |
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| Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD) | The scale is designed to measure "depressive symptomatology in the general population". It has 20 questions and four response options - rarely or none of the time, some or a little of the time, occasionally or a moderate amount of time, most or all of the time. | Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1(3), 385. |
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| The brief symptom inventory: An introductory report | "The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) consists of 53 items covering nine symptom dimensions: Somatization, Obsession-Compulsion, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid ideation and Psychoticism; and three global indices of distress: Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index, and Positive Symptom Total. The global indices measure current or past level of symptomatology, intensity of symptoms, and number of reported symptoms, respectively." | Derogatis, L. R., Melisaratos, N., & BY, P. A. (1983). The brief symptom inventory: An introductory report. Psychological Medicine, 3, 595-605. |
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| Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) | An inventory aims to provide a "quantitative assessment of the intensity of depression". There are 21 "symptom-attitude" categories in the inventory: Mood, Irritability, Pessimism, Social Withdrawal, Sense of Failure, Lack of Satisfaction, Guilty Feeling, Sense of Punishment, Self-Hate, Self Accusations, Self Punitive Wishes, Crying Spells, Indecisiveness, Body Image, Work Inhibition, Sleep Disturbance, Fatigability, Loss of Appetite, Weight Loss, Somatic Preoccupation, Loss of Libido. | Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelson, M., Mock, J., & Erbaugh, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 4, 561-571. |
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| Manual for the state-trait anxiety inventory: STAI (form Y). | The instrument has 40-items, 20 items in each of the scales. It measures state and trait anxiety, and the severity of the overall anxiety level. Response options are from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much so). The instrument helps to distinguish feelings of anxiety from depression. | Spielberger, C. D., Gorsuch, R. L., Lushene, R., Vagg, P. R., & Jacobs, G. A. (1983). Manual for the state-trait anxiety inventory: STAI (form Y). Consulting Psychologists, Palo Alto, , 4-6. |
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| The assessment of anxiety states by rating. | The scale contains 14 items in the form of checklist. The parameters include anxious mood, tension, fears, insomnia, somatic complaints and behavior at the interview. A physician rates patient's degree of anxiety using rating from "none" (0) to "severe, grossly disabling" (4). It provides measures of overall anxiety, psychic anxiety (seven items with score from 0 to 28), and somatic anxiety (seven items with score from 0 to 28). | Hamilton, M. (1959). The assessment of anxiety states by rating. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 32, 50-55. |
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| An Inventory for Measuring Clinical Anxiety: Psychometric Properties | The instrument is a 21-item self-report inventory to measure the severity of anxiety. The respondents rate how much they were "bothered by each symptom over the week" on a 4-point scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (severely). | Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A. (1988). An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56(6), 893-897. |
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| A Rating Instrument for Anxiety Disorders (anxiety status) | The scale contains 20 items. The author designed the instrument with the following features: "inclusive with respect to symptoms of anxiety as a psychiatric disorder", can "quantitate the symptoms", is "short and simple", and "available in two formats so that, 1) the patient can indicate his own responses on a self-administered scale, and 2) the observer can indicate his clinical evaluation of the patient's status on the same set of criteria." | Zung, W. W. (1971). A rating instrument for anxiety disorders. Psychosomatics, 12(6), 371-379. |
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| The WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) | "The WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, (Kessler and Ustun, 2004) the most widely used fully structured diagnostic interview in psychiatric epidemiology, in assessing both threshold and sub-threshold BPD" (bipolar disorders). "The World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) Version 3.0 (Kessler and Ustun, 2004) is a fully structured lay-administered diagnostic interview. DSM-IV criteria were used to define mania, hypomania, and major depressive episode (MDE). The requirement that symptoms do not meet criteria for a Mixed Episode (Criterion C for mania and Criterion B for MDE) was not operationalized in making these diagnoses. Respondents were classified as having lifetime BP-I if they ever had a manic episode and as having lifetime BP-II if they never had a manic episode, ever had a hypomanic episode, and ever had an episode of MDE. Respondents were classified as having sub-threshold BPD if they met any of the following three sets of criteria: (i) they had a history of recurrent sub-threshold hypomania (at least two Criterion B symptoms, such as grandiosity or decreased need for sleep, along with all other criteria for hypomania) in the presence of MDE; (ii) they had a history of recurrent hypomania in the absence of recurrent MDE; or (iii) they had a history of recurrent sub-threshold hypomania in the absence of inter-current MDE." | Kessler, R. C., Akiskal, H. S., Angst, J., Guyer, M., Hirschfeld, R. M. A., Merikangas, K. R., et al. (2006). Validity of the assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders in the WHO CIDI 3.0. Journal of Affective Disorders, 96(3), 259-269. |
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| The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) | The Hypomania Checklist comprises a checklist of possible symptoms of hypomania that are rated yes (present or typical of me) or no (not present or not typical) by the subject. | Angst, J., Adolfsson, R., Benazzi, F., Gamma, A., Hantouche, E., Meyer, T. D., et al. (2005). The HCL-32: Towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 88(2), 217-233. |
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| The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) | The Mood Disorder Questionnaire is a "brief self-report screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorders." "screens for a lifetime history of a manic or hypomanic syndrome by including 13 yes/no items derived from both the DSM-IV criteria and clinical experience (Appendix 1). A yes/no question also asks whether several of any reported manic or hypomanic symptoms or behaviors were experienced during the same period of time. Finally, the level of functional impairment due to these symptoms ("no problem" to "serious problem") is queried on a 4-point scale." | Hirschfeld, R., Williams, J. B. W., Spitzer, R. L., Calabrese, J. R., Flynn, L., Keck Jr, P. E., et al. (2000). Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: The mood disorder questionnaire. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(11), 1873. |
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| The Hopelessness Scale | This scale was designed to quantify hopelessness and was administered to several diverse samples of patients to assess its psychometric properties. The final format of the scale consists of 20 true-false statements of which 9 are keyed false and 11 are keyed true. For every statement, each response was assigned a score of 0 or 1, and the total "hopelessness score" was the sum of the scores on the individual items. Thus, the possible range of scores was from 0 to 20. | Beck, A. T., Weissman, A., Lester, D., & Trexler, L. (1974). The measurement of pessimism: The hopelessness scale. Journal Of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42(6), 861-865. |
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| Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) | The PSS measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. | Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., Mermelstein, R. (1983). A Global Measure of Perceived Stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24(4): 385-396. |
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| Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) | The present scale has been devised for use only on patients already diagnosed as suffering from affective disorder of depressive type. It is used for quantifying the results of an interview, and its value depends entirely on the skill of the interviewer in eliciting the necessary information. | Hamilton, M. (1960). A Rating Scale for Depression. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 23: 56-62. |
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| The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) | This scale is intended for use with patients already diagnosed as suffering from neurotic anxiety states, not for assessing anxiety in patients suffering from other disorders. | Hamilton, M. (1959). The assessment of anxiety states by rating. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 32, 50-55. |
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