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Rating scales for depression and anxiety: a current perspective.
Author(s) -
Snaith RP,
Taylor CM
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.216
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1365-2125
pISSN - 0306-5251
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1985.tb02737.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , perspective (graphical) , depression (economics) , rating scale , clinical psychology , psychology , current (fluid) , psychiatry , medicine , developmental psychology , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , economics , macroeconomics , thermodynamics
Research now requires instruments capable of a better distinction between depressive and anxiety disorders. The study is concerned with two relatively recent clinician‐rated scales, the Montgomery‐Asberg Depression Rating Scale and the Clinical Anxiety Scale together with two recent self‐assessment scales, the Irritability‐Depression‐Anxiety Scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. The concurrent validity of these scales as measures of the separate concepts of anxiety and depression is examined.