Prospective assessment of menstrually related mood disorders
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (5) , 684-686
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.5.684
Abstract
For prospective longitudinal confirmation of menstrually related mood changes, the authors selected a 100-mm visual analogue scale for twice-daily self-rating of mood. The advantages of this method are simplicity; increased compliance; ease of graphic presentation, allowing evaluation of severity and relationship to menstruation; and greater uniformity among studies of menstrually related syndromes. In a preliminary application of this measure to 20 women with self-diagnosed premenstrual syndrome, eight (40%) had a mean depression rating during the week before menstruation that was 30% higher than during the week after cessation of menstruation.Keywords
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