Sensitivity to change, discriminative performance, and cutoff criteria to define remission for embedded short scales of the Hamilton depression rating scale (HAMD)

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 102, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 93-99

  Ballesteros, Javier ^a,f   Bobes, Julio ^b   Bulbena, Antonio ^c   Luque, Antonio ^d   Dal Ré, Rafael ^e   Ibarra, Nora ^f   Güemes, Itziar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (Spain)

^f Institute of Psychiatric Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

Depression; HAMD; Hamilton depression rating scale; HDRS; Remission cutoff points; Sensitivity to change; Short scales; Unidimensional versions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REMISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMISSION INDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34447264427     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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