17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17), raw clinician-rated items, from a Rasch analysis of depressive symptom severity
Reference
Carvalho Alves LP, Fleck MPA, et al. (2017) The Major Depressive Disorder Hierarchy: Rasch Analysis of 6 items of the Hamilton Depression Scale Covering the Continuum of Depressive Syndrome. PLoS ONE.
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
Instrument
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, 17-item version (HDRS-17 / HAM-D17)
Mean words per item
7.493
Mean characters per item
56.565
Mean characters per response
16.971
Flesch-Kincaid grade level
14.643
Codebook
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, alves_2017_hamd17.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
Column
What it is
Source column
IRW standard columns
id
IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).
@article{Primo_de_Carvalho_Alves_2017, title={The Major Depressive Disorder Hierarchy: Rasch Analysis of 6 items of the Hamilton Depression Scale Covering the Continuum of Depressive Syndrome}, volume={12}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170000}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0170000}, number={1}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Primo de Carvalho Alves, Lucas and Pio de Almeida Fleck, Marcelo and Boni, Aline and Sica da Rocha, Neusa}, editor={Vrana, Kent E.}, year={2017}, month=Jan, pages={e0170000} }