The Depressive Psychopathology Scale: presentation and initial validation in a sample of Peruvian psychiatric patients La Escala de Psicopatología Depresiva: presentación y validación inicial en una muestra de pacientes psiquiátricos peruanos

• Main Authors: Johann M Vega-Dienstmaier, Santiago Stucchi-Portocarrero, Nancy Valdez-Huarcaya, Miriam Cabra-Bravo, Maria I Zapata-Vega
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2011
• Subjects: Escalas de valoración psiquiátrica; depresión; estudios de validación; Perú; Psychiatric status rating scales; depression; validation studies; Peru; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Española; Rho; Lengua
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c7bde0b3aa5f4414ba66e9bd71368339

OBJECTIVE: Presentation and validation of the Depressive Psychopathology Scale (DPS), a new, Spanish-language psychometric inventory, in a sample of Peruvian psychiatric patients. METHODS: From 1999 to 2001, the DPS, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (ZSDS), and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) modul...