Max Hamilton’s scientific contributions

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The Leeds Scales for Self-Assessment of Anxiety and Depression
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March 1976

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The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science

R P Snaith

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G.W.K. Bridge

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Max Hamilton

Self-rating scales are finding an increasing use in psychiatric work. Not only are they widely used in research, but they provide the clinician with a score indicating the patient's psychiatric state at any one time, and these scores if repeated throughout the duration of treatment may be considered to provide a continuing measure of the severity of the illness, as does a temperature chart in a febrile illness. Most scales could be improved by item analysis, and in this study the Wakefield Self-Assessment of Depression Inventory, with added items, was subjected to statistical analysis. It was found that valid scales could be constructed for the measurement of anxiety and of depression in general psychiatric disorders, as well as scales for the measurement of the severity of endogenous (primary) depression and of anxiety states. In addition, the derivation of a 'diagnostic' score was confirmed in a cross-validation study and may be found of use both in research and in clinical practice.

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... This difference could be explained by the fact that different instruments were used to assess depression on each occasion. Leader using the Leeds scale (Snaith et al., 1976) and found a rate of almost 40%. The follow up study used the more recent H.A.D. which differentiates more clearly between anxiety and depression. ...

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Irish Families Under Stress Vol 4 Child Psychiatry, Depression, Delinquency, Eating disorders and Psychotherapy.
The Leeds Scales for Self-Assessment of Anxiety and Depression
  • Citing Article
  • March 1976

The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science