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Depression Scales Derived from the Hopkins Symptom Checklist

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Assessment of Depression

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The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL) is a patient self-report symptom inventory derived from the Cornell Medical Index. The HSCL was developed initially to measure the more common psychoneurotic complaints of outpatients [18]. An early version of the instrument, the “Discomfort Scale,” was used by Parloff et al. [26] and by Frank et al. [11] as an improvement measure in their studies of psychotherapy. Frank et al. [11], for example, employed a 41-item version of the HSCL in a series of psychotherapy studies.

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  1. Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

  2. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

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    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

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    Thomas A. Ban (Professor of Psychiatry) (Professor of Psychiatry)

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Lipman, R.S. (1986). Depression Scales Derived from the Hopkins Symptom Checklist. In: Sartorius, N., Ban, T.A. (eds) Assessment of Depression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70486-4_22

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