Mood Disorder Questionnaire.
MDQ
Lifetime screen for bipolar-spectrum disorder: 13 yes/no manic/hypomanic symptom items plus a same-time co-occurrence item and a functional-impairment item
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 13 symptom items (+ 2 follow-up items: co-occurrence, impairment). Yes/no symptom items (summed 0-13) plus a co-occurrence item and a 4-point impairment item; positive screen = >=7 symptoms AND co-occurrence AND moderate+ impairment (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, PT, IT, DE, FR, ZH, JA, TR and others; widely validated internationally
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Hirschfeld, R. M. A., Williams, J. B. W., Spitzer, R. L., et al. (2000). Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(11), 1873-1875.
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.
- MDQ - Mood Disorder Questionnaire
13 (+ co-occurrence + impairment items).
More in Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress
- GAD-7 - Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale
7 items. public-domain / open.
- PHQ-9 - Patient Health Questionnaire-9
9 (+1 functional-impairment item, unscored). public-domain / open.
- PSS (PSS-14 / PSS-10 / PSS-4) - Perceived Stress Scale
14 (original); 10 (PSS-10, recommended); 4 (PSS-4, brief). public-domain / open.
- ACE - Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire
10 (original ACE score); WHO ACE-IQ approx 43 items. public-domain / open.
- ACQ - Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire
14 items. open with attribution.
- ASRM - Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale
5 items. public-domain / open.
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