We compared three self-rating scales (the Geriatric Depression Scale, the Zung Scale, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale) with three examiner-rating scales (the Hamilton Rating Scale, the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale-Depression, and the Cornell Scale), to see which was best for 40 elderly (mean age 80 years) stroke patients, 17 of whom were depressed acco...

The development ofa 2 l-item self-report inventory for measuring the severity of anxiety in psychiatric populations is described. The initial item pool of 86 items was drawn from three preexisting scales: the Anxiety Checklist, the Physician's Desk Reference Checklist, and the Situational Anxiety Checklist. A series of analyses was used to reduce the item pool. The resulting Beck Anxiety Invent...

BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are prevalent and associated with poor prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, studies examining screening of anxiety disorders in CAD patients are lacking. In the present study we evaluated the prevalence of anxiety disorders in patients with CAD and diagnostic utility of self-rating scales for screening of anxiety disorders. METHODS Fi...

We determined the pattern and severity of symptoms in Turkish and German depressed inpatients. Psychopathological and somatic symptoms were documented on standardized rating scales of the Association for Methodology and Documentation in Psychiatry (AMDP) System. Of a total sample of 6000 inpatients admitted to the Psychiatric Department of the Free University of Berlin from 1981 to 1989, 28 Tur...

These practice parameters have been developed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a guide for clinicians evaluating psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. The document focuses on the assessment, diagnostic, and treatment planning process, emphasizing a developmental perspective. The assessment process is intended for all children and adolescents presenting ...

Quality of life is an important outcome in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. It has been suggested that patients' quality of life ratings (referred to as subjective quality of life, SQOL) might be too heavily influenced by symptomatology to be a valid independent outcome criterion. There has been only limited evidence on the association of symptom change and changes in SQOL over tim...

In web-based adaptive systems, the same rating scales are usually provided to all users for expressing their preferences with respect to various items. It emerged from a user experiment that we recently carried out that different users show different preferences with respect to the rating scales to use in the interface of adaptive systems, given the particular topic they are evaluating. Startin...

Schizophrenia is significantly a disabling disease that affects all major areas of life. So, the goal treating schizophrenia to prevent relapse, and increase adaptive functioning so patient can be integrated back into community. In this case report, was followed for 3 years with good improvement after long break in work area, he could go his able sustain pressure lead normal The treated homoeop...

In a category rating experiment using a graded series of squares we changed both stimulus range and frequency during the experimental session. Range-frequency theory (Parducci, 1965; Parducci & Perrett, 1971; Parducci & Wedell, 1986) predicts the same rate of adjustment to the new stimulus range and to the new stimulus frequencies. Its closest competitor, consistency theory (Haubensak, 1992a, 1...