Talk:Rating scales for depression

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Did you know... that, rather being used to diagnose depression, depression rating scales provide an indication of the severity of symptoms for a time period?

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In the following link there is a list of different questionnaires and links to their commercial links. It could be useful to anybody interested in improving the article: [1] --Garrondo (talk) 12:06, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also leave here the citation for the wechsler depression rating scale: We have no further info on the scale but the name and original citation. If some info is found it can be re-added to the article: Wechsler Depression Rating Scale^[1] --Garrondo (talk) 16:36, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Wechsler H, Grosser GH, Busfield BL (1963). "The depression rating scale: A quantitative approach to the assessment of depressive symptomatology". Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 9: 334–43. PMID 14045262. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Why this article called a list?

It's obviously more than that. Xasodfuih (talk) 13:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I initially wrote it in list form, but it was later changed... It could be renamed if nobody disagrees (I do not know how to do it). --Garrondo (talk) 08:13, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've renamed it. Xasodfuih (talk) 15:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Questioning the validity of rating scales for depression

Several excellent research articles have come out in the past several years that question the validity of sum-score rating scales for depression. I think a section discussing the problems of reliability and validity of depression scores would be beneficial.

Fried, E.I., Nesse, R.M., 2015b 2017. The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap amoung seven common depression scales, Journal of Affective Disorders 208 (2017) 191-197

Santor, D.A., Gregus, M., Welch, A., 2006. Eight Decades of Measurement in Depression, Measurement, 4(3), 135-155

361 24.155.197.107 (talk) 05:25, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[pmid14045262-1] Wechsler H, Grosser GH, Busfield BL (1963). "The depression rating scale: A quantitative approach to the assessment of depressive symptomatology". Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 9: 334–43. PMID 14045262. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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