Have state-of-the-art clinical trials failed to deliver treatments for neurodegenerative diseases because of shortcomings in the rating scales used? This Review assesses two methodological limitations of rating scales that might help to answer this question. First, the numbers generated by most rating scales do not satisfy the criteria for rigorous measurements. Second, we do not really know wh...

OBJECTIVE This study was to investigate the current use of depression rating scales by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in Korea. METHODS The questionnaires from many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists were included in the analysis. The questionnaire was composed of items about examining the percentage of patients clinically using depression rating scales, reasons for not use of...

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...

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...

This study explores the usefulness of clinical rating scales in the assessment of suicidal risk in an urban psychiatric teaching hospital. Admission for clinically evaluated suicide risk was the outcome variable because actual suicide occurs rarely. Six clinical scales identified high-risk patients: the Modified SAD PERSONS scale, revised Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck ...

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...

The first application of rating scales in psychiatry goes back to soon after the First World War, but the real development did not occur until after the Second World War. Their use has increased so much that it is scarcely possible to look through any copy of a general psychiatric journal without finding at least one paper which involves the use of a scale of some sort. Such papers are always c...

Since the introduction of antidepressants to psychopharmacology in the 1960s, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) has been the most frequently used rating scale for depression. When used as a scale for prediction of outcome with antidepressants, the HAM-D, by its total score, has obtained limited use analogous to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed (DSM-IV...