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Formal psychological assessment in evaluating depression: a new methodology to build exhaustive and irredundant adaptive questionnaires.
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- Assessing mental health among students in the UAE: A cross-sectional study utilizing the DASS-21 scale.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024Article
- The assessment of nonverbal behavior in schizophrenia through the Formal Psychological Assessment.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2018Article
- New Perspectives in the Adaptive Assessment of Depression: The ATS-PD Version of the QuEDS.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- ATS-PD: An Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders.Educational and psychological measurement · 2017Article
- Improving Major Depressive Episode Assessment: A New Tool Developed by Formal Psychological Assessment.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Memantine: New prospective in bipolar disorder treatment.World journal of psychiatry · 2014Review
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Abstract
Psychological Assessment can be defined as a complex procedure of information collection, analysis and processing. Formal Psychological Assessment (FPA) tries to improve this procedure by providing a formal framework to build assessment tools. In this paper, FPA is applied to depression. Seven questionnaires widely used for the self-evaluation of depression were selected. Diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder were derived from the DSM-5, literature and Seligman's and Beck's theories. A Boolean matrix was built, including 266 items from the questionnaires in the rows and 20 selected attributes, obtained through diagnostic criteria decomposition, in the columns. In the matrix, a 1 in a cell meant that the corresponding item investigated the specific attribute. It was thus possible to analyze the relationships between items and attributes and among items. While none of the considered questionnaires could alone cover all the criteria for the evaluation of depressive symptoms, we observed that a set of 30 items contained the same information that was obtained redundantly with 266 items. Another result highlighted by the matrix regards the relations among items. FPA allows in-depth analysis of currently used questionnaires based on the presence/absence of clinical elements. FPA allows for going beyond the mere score by differentiating the patients according to symptomatology. Furthermore, it allows for computerized-adaptive assessment.
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