The Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D) and the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Scale (MADRS). A psychometric re-analysis of the European Genome-Based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression Study using Rasch analysis

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 226-232

  Bech, Per ^a   Allerup, Peter ^b   Larsen, Erik Roj ^c   Csillag, Claudio ^a   Licht, Rasmus W ^d  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Department of Affective Disorders Q Mood Disorders Research Unit ^*  (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Change; Depression rating scales; Depressive disorder; Invariance over time; Rasch analysis; Trial of antidepressants; Unidimensionality

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRIEDMANN VISUAL FIELD ANALYZER; GENOME; GUILT; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MOOD DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; PSYCHOSOMATICS; RASCH ANALYSIS; WORK; ANXIETY; DISABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84900015145     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.024     Document Type: Article

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