PURPOSE To present the results of a study that used cognitive interviewing techniques to interview pregnant and postpartum women about their experience of completing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. BACKGROUND Most large-scale initiatives that screen women for depression during pregnancy and the first 3-6 months postpartum use the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. The scale is a ...

Objective: The increasing importance of the movement of positive psychology has led scientific research to explore and measure the optimal human performance or flourishing. Many researchers believe that the components of flourishing are different in sociocultural contexts, and culture is the primary factor affecting the optimal human performance. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to develop an...

BACKGROUND The Bipolar Depression Rating Scale is an instrument to measure depression severity in patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This study has reevaluated the psychometric values of the Bipolar Depression Rating Scale through assessing an Iranian sample of patients with bipolar depression. METHODS A total of 60 patients (36 males and 24 females) with bipolar depression referred to...

OBJECTIVE To obtain internal construct and criteria validity for the Center of Epidemiological Studies--Depression Scale in elderly people. METHODS The instrument was applied to 903 elderly living in a city in southeastern Brazil, between 2002 and 2003. Results were compared with the Brazilian version of the CES-D applied to a sub-sample of 446 participants. Internal consistency of the two sc...