Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology.

IDS (IDS-SR30 / IDS-C30)

What it measures

Comprehensive depression severity covering all DSM criterion symptoms plus melancholic, atypical and anxious features; broader than QIDS

Length and format

30 (self-report IDS-SR and clinician IDS-C). 4-point (0-3); total 0-84 (28 of 30 items scored) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Several languages incl. ES, NL, DE, ZH, JA (validated alongside QIDS)

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

Rush, A. J., Gullion, C. M., Basco, M. R., Jarrett, R. B., & Trivedi, M. H. (1996). The Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS): psychometric properties. Psychological Medicine, 26(3), 477-486.