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Clinical: broadband and severity

Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25.

HSCL-25

What it measures
Anxiety (10 items) and Depression (15 items) symptom distress; broadband emotional distress screen
Length and format
25 items. 4-pt Likert distress (1 not at all - 4 extremely), past week (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Very many incl. Bosnian, Croatian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Japanese, ES, FR, AR, and dozens of refugee-language versions (HPRT)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
public-domain / open

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Reference
Derogatis, L.R., et al. (1974). The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): A self-report symptom inventory. Behavioral Science, 19(1), 1-15.

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