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Measures of Depressive Mood at Monthly Intervals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Crawford Little
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries
Neil I. McPhail
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries

Extract

Various inevitably indirect attempts to quantify mood states have recently been reviewed by Aitken and Zealley (1970). In the present study, the results of administering two depression rating scales to the same group of patients were compared and their usefulness appraised.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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