Background: Depression diagnosis requires five or more symptoms (Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-DSM-5). One of them must be either Depressed mood …

Abstract Background The Major Depression Inventory (MDI) is a new, brief, self-report
measure for depression based on the DSM-system, which allows clinicians to assess the …

Background: The polythetic nature of major depressive disorder (MDD) in DSM-IV and DSM-
5 inevitably leads to diagnostic heterogeneity. Aims: This study aimed to identify the number …

Background The DSM-5 encompasses a wide range of symptoms for Major Depressive
Disorder (MDD). Symptoms are commonly added up to sum-scores, and thresholds …

Background. Clinicians have questioned the validity of depression criteria in patients with
chronic medical illness, but few empirical data address this question. Method. Computerized …

CONTEXT: The draft proposal to add Chronic Depressive Disorder to DSM-5 will combine
DSM-IV Dysthymic Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder, with chronic specifier, into a …

Background: MADRS cut-off scores for moderate and severe depression were estimated in
relation to the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD17) and the Clinical Global …

BackgroundThe ICD–10 categorisation of severity of depression into mild, moderate and
severe depressive episodes has not been validated. AimsTo validate the ICD–10 …

The DSM system has never acknowledged a central position for mixed states; thus, mixed
depressions have been almost completely neglected for decades. Now, DSM-5 is proposing …

Background: Agreement on the factor structure of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
(HDRS) has not been consistent among studies, and some investigators argued that the …