What is Self Assessment?Unlike other fields of medicine where illnesses can be
diagnosed using laboratory tests or imaging techniques, psychiatry heavily relies
on an individual’s account of their current and past symptoms. This is also
true for depression. However, recounting one’s depressive symptoms without using an
objective self-assessment tool is fraught with inaccuracies. People overemphasize
symptoms that need urgent attention and miss some, especially if they are unaware of the full spectrum of depressive symptoms.
What are the Available Tools for Self-Assessment?The internet is flooded with the so-called "depression tests" with questionable validity. The following self-assessment tools have been extensively used in research and/or clinical settings and can be downloaded for no charge from the internet.
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report (QIDS-SR16): This is a 16-item self-rating scale used for screening depression or assessing its severity (Lam…
What are the Available Tools for Self-Assessment?The internet is flooded with the so-called "depression tests" with questionable validity. The following self-assessment tools have been extensively used in research and/or clinical settings and can be downloaded for no charge from the internet.
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report (QIDS-SR16): This is a 16-item self-rating scale used for screening depression or assessing its severity (Lam…