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The Melancholia Scale: Development, Consistency, Validity, and Utility

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Assessment of Depression

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The Melancholia scale (MES) was designed to be an observer-rating scale quantifying the severity of depressive states in all types of patients and serving to identify depressed patients or to assess the response to antidepressive therapy.

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  1. P. Bech
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

  2. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

  3. Université de Genève, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle) (Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professeur invité à charge partielle)

  4. Vanderbilt University, 242 Medical Arts Building 1211 21st Avenue, South, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA

    Thomas A. Ban (Professor of Psychiatry) (Professor of Psychiatry)

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Bech, P., Rafaelsen, O.J. (1986). The Melancholia Scale: Development, Consistency, Validity, and Utility. In: Sartorius, N., Ban, T.A. (eds) Assessment of Depression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70486-4_24

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