“…There is a lot of evidence that self-rating depression scales are sensitive to change un der treatment conditions and there is some evidence that they are even sensitive to differ entiation between different kinds of treat ment [38,39,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68], However, the literature is not explicit and few direct comparisons have been reported [cf. 2,3,13,20,29,[69][70][71][72], In a review of self-rating evaluation of antidepressants [71], a self-rating of global im provement appeared as the most sensitive self-rating measure of change.…”