The phrase
"depression scale" refers to a tool or questionnaire that helps measure the level of depression someone might be experiencing. It assesses different symptoms and behaviors to determine how severe or mild their depression is.
Full definition
Where depression symptoms are measured using more than one
depression scale in a trial, we will extract data from the depressive scales on the basis of a hierarchy of rating scales.
For this reason, administering a self -
rated depression scale to elderly patients at hospital admission may impose a psychological burden on these patients.
Geriatric Depression Scale Scores in a representative sample of 14 545 people aged 75 and over in the United Kingdom: results from the MRC Trial of Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community.
Their mothers had higher Edinburgh Postnatal
Depression Scale scores (median: 8 vs 5) and more difficulties with their partner undermining the management of their child.
Using the Center for Epidemiological Studies
of Depression scale, the researchers found that the probability of a high depression score (more than 16) was 4-fold greater during the menopausal transition than during the premenopausal phase.
Rating Scales Center for Epidemiological Studies
Depression Scale for Children (CES - DC) Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomology (QIDS - A17 - C) d Patient Health Questionnaire Modified for Teens (PHQ - 9)
Assessments three and six months after the initial prescription included the 20
item depression scale on the symptom checklist17 and the current depression module of the structured clinical interview for DSM - IV.18 From computerised pharmacy and visit data we assessed antidepressant treatment received (using previously developed and validated algorithms5) and follow up visits.
After randomly assigning them to CCBT or the waitlist control, it was found that there were significantly greater reductions in Children's Depression Rating Scale and Reynolds
Adolescent Depression Scale scores from baseline to week 5 for the intervention group compared with those who waited.
Measures utilized include a demographics questionnaire, Locke - Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT), the Center for Epidemiological Studies
on Depression Scale (CES - D), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), and the General Life Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Ten immigrant new mothers who scored 10 or over on the Edinburgh
Postpartum Depression Scale shortly after giving birth, participated 12 to 18 months later in postpartum semi-structured interviews which were taped, transcribed and analyzed using a constant comparative approach.
After a complete description of study procedures, eligible and consenting patients completed a 20 item
depression scale from the Hopkins symptom checklist.17
The 15 item Geriatric
Depression Scale had perfect sensitivity but low specificity for detecting depression in elderly people
Maternal depression was measured with the abbreviated Center for Epidemiologic Studies
Depression Scale at baseline, preschool, and kindergarten.
The outcome is measurable and is usually assessed using different instruments such as the Beck Depression Inventory, or the Hospital
Anxiety Depression Scale.
In addition, a
standard depression scale questionnaire, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES - D) scale, 10 reflecting the self - reported frequency of depressive symptoms during the middle of the index pregnancy was completed by some women.
Beck Depression Scale (BDS): The scale determines depression risks and level and intensity of depressive symptoms.
426 adults with DSM - IV generalised anxiety disorder (GAD; diagnosed using the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview) with predominantly symptoms of anxiety rather than depression (Covi Anxiety Scale score ⩾ 9 and
Raskin Depression Scale score ⩽ 7) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM - A) score ⩾ 20.
Over the 18 weeks, 201 people with CHD who would not normally have been screened for depression / anxiety were assessed using a validated instrument (the 5 - item
Cardiac Depression Scale).
We used the standard Center for Epidemiologic Studies —
Depression Scale depressive symptom score of ≥ 16 to categorize participants as «at risk» of depression.
Mothers were also assessed with the Brief Anger Aggression Questionnaire, the
CESD depression scale, and the Assessing Environments III, which provides information on childhood experiences of abusive punishment.
You can also refer to an
official depression scale to gauge whether you have the blues that will go away in a matter of weeks, or PPD, which requires treatment.
Based on a positive Edinburgh Postnatal
Depression Scale screen at 2 months, two hundred twenty - three (8.62 %) mothers who initiated breastfeeding met criteria for postpartum depression.
The method they developed, which combines questions from EPDS and GMDS (Gotland
Male Depression Scale), proved to be well - suited for capturing dads with multiple symptoms of depression.
The Kutcher Adolescent
Depression Scale serves as a self - report scale especially created to diagnosis and measure the degree of teenage depression.
The Edinburgh Postnatal
Depression Scale assessed depressive symptoms, the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire assessed the mother's perception of bonding with the infant and mother - infant interactions were videotaped and analyzed with the Global Rating Scale.
Proportion of responders at end of treatment or at study endpoint if treatment was longer than 6 weeks (based on score improvements on Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD), the Clinical Global Impression index (CGI), rating as at least «much improved» on global improvement subscale,
Depression Scale von Zerssen (DS) or any other clinical response measure); safety (proportion of dropouts due to adverse events).
The results for the different versions of the geriatric
depression scale suggest the use of a 10 - item or a four - item version.
The PHQ - 9 is a nine item
depression scale which assists primary care clinicians in diagnosing depression as well as selecting and monitoring treatment.
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ - 9)
Depression Scale University of Washington, Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions Center (2017) Presents a tool that assesses mental health symptoms and functional impairment to make a tentative depression diagnosis.
Center for Epidemiologic Studies
Depression Scale Revised Center for Epidemiologic Studies Provides a 20 - item screening tool used to assess the severity of depressive symptoms in adults.
Geriatric Rating Scales An annotated list with selected online scales including the Geriatric
Depression Scale by Brink & Yesavege
Factorial structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies —
Depression Scale among American Indian college students