Validity of a self-report depression symptom scale for identifying remission in depressed outpatients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-188

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a   Posternak, Michael A ^a   McGlinchey, Joseph ^a   Friedman, Michael ^a   Attiullah, Naureen ^a   Boerescu, Daniela ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REMISSION; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646095993     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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