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Clinical Self-Rating Scales (CSRS) of the Munich Psychiatric Information System (PSYCHIS München)

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Assessment of Depression

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In order to assess the present mental state of patients at admission to and discharge from a psychiatric hospital and to record changes in their general mood state during hospitalization or within special research projects, a series of self-rating scales [5, 29, 30] were constructed as a supplement to clinical-rating scales (such as the inpatient multidimensional psychiatric scale [IMPS] according to Lorr and Klett [15]). All these scales, together with additional scales for the evaluation of premorbid personality traits and the respective scoring procedures, constitute a subsystem of the Munich psychiatric information system (PSYCHIS München [1]) developed at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (MPIP). At present the data bank of this system contains questionnaire data on more than 3500 psychiatric inpatients, well over 700 medical patients, and approximately 4000 subjects from the general population investigated in epidemiological studies [8, 26, 29 a] by means of these scales or a subset of them. The scales have also been applied in various other clinical and outpatient settings, pharmacological laboratories, etc., within and outside the Federal Republic of Germany.

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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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von Zerssen, D. (1986). Clinical Self-Rating Scales (CSRS) of the Munich Psychiatric Information System (PSYCHIS München). In: Sartorius, N., Ban, T.A. (eds) Assessment of Depression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70486-4_25

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