Name of rating scale

Details

Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) (Young 1978)

This scale has 11 items which are rated after a clinical interview. Irritability, speech rate and amount, content of thought and disruptive behaviour items are given extra weight in the total by being scored from 0 to 8, whereas the remaining items are scored from 0 to 4. Higher scores indicate more symptoms.

Clinical Global Impression ‐ Bipolar version (CGI‐BP) (Spearing 1997)

CGI‐BP is a 7‐point scoring system, with low scores showing decreased severity and overall improvement. Previous phases of illness are used as comparators for the assessed period.

Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) (Rush 1996)

The IDS is a 28 or 30‐point self rated (IDS‐SR) and clinical‐rated (IDS‐CR) inventory of depressive symptoms. It is based on the DSM‐IV criteria of a major depressive episode. Each scale item is weighed equally from 0 to 3. The IDS is supposed to be more suitable for monitoring mood symptoms in an outpatient setting

Bech‐Rafaelsen Mania Rating Scale (BRMAS) (Bech 1978)

This is an 11‐item scoring scale: each symptom is measured from 0 to 4, increasing from 'not present' to 'severe'. The items included activity (motor and verbal), flight of thought, voice level, hostility/destructiveness, mood, self esteem, contact, sleep, sexual interest and work