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A Clinical Scale for the Self-assessment of Irritability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. P. Snaith ,
A. A. Constantopoulos ,
M. Y. Jardine  and
P. McGuffin
R. P. Snaith
Affiliation:
University of Leeds; Department of Psychiatry, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT
A. A. Constantopoulos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
M. Y. Jardine
Affiliation:
St James's Hospital, Leeds
P. McGuffin
Affiliation:
St James's Hospital, Leeds; now at The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 5AZ
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Summary

To date there has been no suitable scale for the self-assessment of irritability in the clinical situation. Existing scales have either included aspects of personality trait together with present state or they have been constructed on non-clinical populations. A self-assessment scale has been constructed which seeks to overcome such faults. Measures of depression and of anxiety are included, together with measures of outwardly directed irritability and inwardly directed irritability. This scale should be known as the Irritability, Depression, Anxiety—or IDA—Scale.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 2 , February 1978 , pp. 164 - 171
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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