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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale.

ODSIS

What it measures
Transdiagnostic depression severity and functional impairment (frequency, intensity, avoidance/withdrawal, work and social impairment) in any depressive presentation
Length and format
5 items. 5-point (0-4), summed 0-20; cut-off ~8 suggests clinically significant depression (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Spanish (e.g. Argentina), and others; growing translation set as a transdiagnostic companion to OASIS
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
Bentley, K. H., Gallagher, M. W., Carl, J. R., & Barlow, D. H. (2014). Development and validation of the Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale. Psychological Assessment, 26(3), 815-830.

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