%0 Journal Article
%T Cross-Cultural Psychometric Properties of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
%A Erik Lykke Mortensen
%A Erik Vindbjerg
%A Guido Makransky
%A Jessica Carlsson
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0706743718772516
%X The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is considered the gold standard measure of depression. The factor structure of the HDRS is generally unstable, but 4 to 8 items appear to form a general depression factor. As transcultural studies of the HDRS have received little attention, and as most of the studies have taken a data-driven approach with a tendency to yield fragmented results, it is not clear if an HDRS general depression factor can also be found in non-Western populations. This is an important issue in deciding on the appropriateness of the scale as a gold standard in transcultural psychiatry
%K factor structure
%K depression
%K Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
%K cross-cultural
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364134/