Psychometric analysis of the Melancholia Scale in trials with non-pharmacological augmentation of patients with therapy-resistant depression

Acta Neuropsychiatrica

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 155-160

  Bech, Per ^a   Lauritzen, Lise ^a   Lunde, Marianne ^a   Unden, Mogens ^a   Hellström, Lone Christina ^a   Csillag, Claudio ^a   Martiny, Klaus ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

mood disorders; psychiatric status rating scales; psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHT LIGHT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONCURRENT VALIDITY; DSM-III-R; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FRIEDMAN TEST; GUILT; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MELANCHOLIA SCALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WAKE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; FEMALE; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANXIETY; APATHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FATIGUE; INTROVERSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANCHOLIA; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SLEEP DISORDER; THEORY; THERAPY RESISTANT DEPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900336067     PISSN: 09242708     EISSN: 16015215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/neu.2013.51     Document Type: Article

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