Hypomania Checklist-32.
HCL-32
Self-report screen for hypomanic symptoms (lifetime 'high' periods) to detect bipolar-II and soft-bipolar features in patients presenting with depression; 32 hypomania symptom items plus contextual/impact items
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 32 symptom items (+ contextual items on duration, impact and others' reactions). Yes/no symptom items, summed 0-32; common screening cut-off ~14 (varies by study/version) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 30+ languages; explicitly developed and validated multinationally (ES, IT, DE, ZH, PT, TR, FR, and many more)
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Angst, J., Adolfsson, R., Benazzi, F., et al. (2005). The HCL-32: towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 88(2), 217-233.
Measures you can take in clinical: mood, anxiety and stress
These are measures in the same field, which you can take here. This entry does not describe them.
Also catalogued under
The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue. Our rows for it disagree about the licence, so treat the stricter reading as binding until the rights holder says otherwise.
- HCL-32 - Hypomania Checklist-32
32 (+ impact/impairment items).
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