Validation of a novel online depression symptom severity rating scale: the R8 Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An automated web-based assessment and monitoring system ( www.psynary.com ) has been developed to assist non-specialist clinicians in managing common mood and anxiety disorders. Psynary promotes the use of standardised outcome measures to assess symptom severity and optimise treatments with the aim of improving outcomes and enabling faster recovery. This paper analyses the results from two parallel studies in New Zealand and Japan (OptiMA-1 NZ and Japan) to assess the validity of the R8 Depression scale, one of the system's core outcome measures.

Methods

Clinical samples were recruited from a public secondary care and a private psychiatry clinic. Participants completed the outcome measures for the study via the online Psynary system. The R8 Depression scale is a 3

SUBMITTER: Takao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8196428 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature