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The Zung Depression Inventory or Depression Status Inventory was developed by Duke University psychiatrist William W.K. Zung as an adjunct to the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
He designed it to assess the level of depression for patients diagnosed with depressive disorder.[1]
The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale is a short self-administered survey to quantify the depressed status of a patient. There are 20 items on the scale that rate the rating affective, psychological and somatic symptoms associated with depression.[citation needed]
There are ten positively worded and ten negatively worded questions. Each question is scored on a scale of 1 through 4 (based on these replies: "a little of the time," "some of the time," "good part of the time," "most of the time").[citation needed]
Scores on the test range from 20 through 80. The scores fall into four ranges:[citation needed]
- 20-44 Normal Range
- 45-59 Mildly Depressed
- 60-69 Moderately Depressed
- 70 and above Severely Depressed
The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale has been translated into many languages, including Arabic,[2] Azerbaijani,[3] Dutch, German, Portuguese,[4] and Spanish.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ (1965). A self-rating depression scale. Archives of General Psychiatry 12: 63–70.
- ↑ (2005). Validation of an Arabic translation of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. Annals of Saudi Medicine 25 (3): 205–8.
- ↑ Zanqın özünüqiymətləndirmə depressiya cədvəli http://www.mentalhealth.az/default.aspx?m=Test&id=4&l=1
- ↑ (2010). Validity of a Brazilian version of the Zung self-rating depression scale for screening of depression in patients with Parkinson's disease☆. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 16: 42–45.
- ↑ (2003). Applicability of the Spanish Translation of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale in a general Puerto Rican population. Puerto Rico health sciences journal 22 (2): 179–85.
Further reading[]
- Zung, W.W.K. (1972) The Depression Status Inventory: an adjunct to the self-rating depression scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology 28, 4, 539 ñ 543