The new GRID Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression demonstrates excellent inter-rater reliability for inexperienced and experienced raters before and after training

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-67

  Tabuse, Hideaki ^a,b   Kalali, Amir ^c   Azuma, Hideki ^b   Ozaki, Norio ^d   Iwata, Nakao ^e   Naitoh, Hiroshi ^e   Higuchi, Teruhiko ^f   Kanba, Shigenobu ^g   Shioe, Kunihiko ^h   Akechi, Tatsuo ^b   Furukawa, Toshi A ^b  

^a Holy Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c International Society for CNS Drug Development   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^g KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depressive disorder; Mental status schedule; Psychiatric status rating scales; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; GRID HAMILTON SCALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRAINING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34548489365     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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