The version we used derives an ICD-10 diagnosis as well as symptom severity scores for depression, depressive thoughts, anxiety, panic, phobia, sleep, concentration, and fatigue, on a scale of 0 4.
The CIS-R establishes the severity of core symptoms of depressive disorders (depression, depressive thoughts, fatigue, sleep and concentration problems), along with diagnostic cut-points for depressive disorders, using algorithms based on ICD-10 criteria.
A depression severity score based on the sum of the ICD-10 symptom criteria in the CIS-R (depression, depressive thoughts, sleep and concentration problems and fatigue; range 0-21, Cronbach's α = 0.77) was used as an adjustment in analyses of individual depression symptoms (see below).
The kinds of cognitions that characterise depression and catastrophism are also different: depressive thoughts are related to depression and similar concepts, such as inferiority, guilt or suicide.
We examined whether earlier findings obtained in OCD patients also hold for depression by investigating the sensory properties of depressive thoughts in a mildly to moderately depressed sample.
Depressive thoughts were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) depression subscale, with higher scores indicating poorer mental health (range 0 21) (Zigmond and Snaith, 1983).
Furthermore, we examined whether sensory properties of depressive thoughts would be associated with depression severity, suicidality, decreased illness insight and lower quality of life.
When distress is separated from depression we are left with anhedonia and depressive thoughts.
For example, in the treatment of depression, it is common to have clients monitor their depressive thoughts and to use cognitive diaries to challenge their patterns of negative thinking.
Yet, despite the close link with depression, perfectionists aren't necessarily doomed to suffer from depressive thoughts.
The five symptom groups used to assess depression were sleep problems, poor concentration, fatigue and depression (which were scored on a scale of 0-4) andepressiveve thoughts (scored from 0 to 5).
