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International reliability and communicability of a rating scale for depression1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Marie Åsberg ,
Per Kragh-Sørensen ,
R. H. S. Mindham  and
J. Richard Tuck
Marie Åsberg*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Per Kragh-Sørensen
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
R. H. S. Mindham
Affiliation:
Department O, State Mental Hospital of Glostrup, Denmark
J. Richard Tuck
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, de Crespigny Park, London
*
2 Address for correspondence: Dr. Marie Åsberg, Department of Psychiatry, Karolinska Hospital, S–104 01 Stockholm 60, Sweden.
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Synopsis

A rating scale for depression, intended for international studies of drug treatment, is presented. The reliability between raters differing in training and language was 0·86 (Swedish and English raters) and 0·92 (Swedish and Danish raters); the reliability between two Swedish raters was 0·97. There was a strong correlation between severity of depression as measured on this scale and on a nurses' rating scale (0·87). The correlation with patients' self-ratings of depression was weaker (0·63) but still significant.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , November 1973 , pp. 458 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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Footnotes

1

This study was supported by the Swedish Medical Research Council, B73–14P–3647–02, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund, the Danish Medical Research Council, 512–1646, and by funds from the Karolinska Institute.

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