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The Maudsley 3-item visual analogue scale (M3VAS): Longitudinal validation of a new measure to capture depression.

2023-06-28 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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The existing gold standard assessments of depression suffer various issues, which include the evaluation of constructs extraneous to the core symptoms of the illness, and low sensitivity to change over time. Members of our team developed a new, simple visual analogue scale that aims to address these issues (M3VAS). Initial validation of the scale demonstrated good internal consistency and convergent validity. Still, we have not yet investigated how well it assesses changes in the severity of de...

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