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Reliability, validity, and clinical application of the visual analogue mood scale1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Marshal F. Folstein
Affiliation:
From the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, U.S.A.
Richard Luria
Affiliation:
From the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, U.S.A.

Synopsis

The reliability and validity of the Visual Analogue Mood Scale (VAMS) has been demonstrated in both a military and a private psychiatric hospital, inpatient population. The repeated and concurrent administration of the VAMS and the Digit-Symbol test identifies a mood-performance correlation which distinguishes patients with affective disorders, of manic or depressed type, from other psychiatric patients.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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