Inter-rater reliability of Hamilton depression rating scale using video- recorded interviews - Focus on rater-blinding

Abstract

Background:Hamilton depression rating scale (Ham-D) is the most widely used clinician rating scale for depression. There has been no Indian study that has examined the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of video-recorded interviews of the 21-item Ham-D.Aim:To study the IRR of scoring video-recorded interviews for 21-item Ham-D.Materials and Methods:Eighteen subjects with major depressive disorder involved in a larger study were interviewed using the semi-structured clinical interview of the 21-item Ham-D by a primary rater after informed consent. These interviews were video-recorded and portions edited to ensure rater blinding. Subsequently, the video-recorded interviews were rated by a “blind” rater. Both rated the different sub-domains of Ham-D according to Rhoades and Overall (1983). IRR was evaluated using intra-class correlation coefficient.Results:Excellent IRR was observed (0.9891) between the two raters. This was true for each of the primary factors and super-factors.Conclusion:Video recorded 21-item Ham-D has excellentIRR. Video-recorded interviews of Ham-D can be reliably used to blind raters in research.

Reliability and Validity Test of the Indonesian Version of the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) to Measure Work-related Stress in Nursing

“…Similar to this study, translation of HAM-A into another language version has been done several times and getting valid and reliable results. In clinical research settings, HAM-A is a reliable and valid measure for the assessment of global anxiety in the adolescent population (Clark & Donovan, 1994); HAM-A are reliable and valid instruments that can be used among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) (Gencoz, Gencoz, & Soykan, 2007); HAM-A is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of depression in the Urdu language (Hashmi, Naz, Asif, & Khawaja, 2016); In Indian language with video recorded interview, HAM-A inter-rater reliability has found excellent to asses patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) (Prasad et al, 2009).…”

Reliability and Validity Test of the Indonesian Version of the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) to Measure Work-related Stress in Nursing

“…Similar to this study, translation of HAM-A into another language version has been done several times and getting valid and reliable results. In clinical research settings, HAM-A is a reliable and valid measure for the assessment of global anxiety in the adolescent population (Clark & Donovan, 1994); HAM-A are reliable and valid instruments that can be used among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) (Gencoz, Gencoz, & Soykan, 2007); HAM-A is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of depression in the Urdu language (Hashmi, Naz, Asif, & Khawaja, 2016); In Indian language with video recorded interview, HAM-A inter-rater reliability has found excellent to asses patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) (Prasad et al, 2009). In general/workers setting, this study supports the results of previous studies, among others: HARS in the Arabic version is valid and reliable to measure work-related stress among working women in Gaza Strip (Aqel & Thabet, 2017), the HAM-A showed good internal consistency to assess the Romanian employees working in non-governmental organizations (Craiovan, 2015), HAM-A can be used globally and is valid and reliable to measure workrelated stress on students (Gupta et al, 2014), HAM-A has a high-reliability index to measure anxiety oncology nursing in Athens, Greece (Karanikola et al, 2016) and the HARS in Greek language was reliable to assess work-related stress in emergency nursing (Stathopoulou, Karanikola, Panagiotopoulou, & Papathanassoglou, 2011).…”

Indian scales and inventories

“…In this pursuit, after the era on projective techniques, one can distinctly see several paper pencil tests or clinical scales emerging in their place, such as, Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire,[ 67 – 70 ] PGI Health Questionnaire,[ 71 72 ] Beck Depression Inventory,[ 73 ] General Health Questionnaire,[ 74 – 76 ] Goldberg General Health Questionnaire,[ 77 ] Depression-Happiness Scale,[ 78 ] Hamilton Depression Scale. [ 79 ] The purpose and expectation from these tests/measures was to tell the diagnostician whether a given patient had a particular disorder or not based on a numerical score or cut off point. No wonder, this expectation from psychometric tests was to parallel pathology tests in medicine to enable the physician to decide whether a patient has a particular disease is reflected in the highest number of 16 such instruments researched by contributors to IJP [ Table 2 ].…”