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The Symptom-Rating Test

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Assessment of Depression

Abstract

The Symptom-Rating Test (SRT) was originally designed to measure changes in the symptoms of neurotic adults and in experiments in therapeutics, such as drug trials. After several stages of research, new versions were designed to make the scale more economical and sensitive to discriminate between the effects of psychotropic drugs and placebo, or between two drugs in double-blind drug trials. It has been found to be a measure of distress and it has been used effectively with depressed patients [5, 10,19, 20, 24], in psychosomatic disorders [9-11, 21], in schizophrenics [15, 16], and in epidemiological studies [6, 7].

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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)

  3. Université de Genève, Switzerland

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

  4. Vanderbilt University, 242 Medical Arts Building 1211 21st Avenue, South, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA

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

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Kellner, R. (1986). The Symptom-Rating Test. In: Sartorius, N., Ban, T.A. (eds) Assessment of Depression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70486-4_20

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