Systems and Scales for the Assessment of Depression in French-Speaking Countries

Abstract

Recent surveys of psychometric instruments in French, especially on depression, are to be found in a 235-page report on therapeutic trials in psychiatry at the 76th Annual Congress of French-Speaking Psychiatrists in Charleroi/Belgium in June 1978 [23], in the proceedings of a symposium on depressive symptomatology held in November 1978 in Paris [37], in a chapter of a Canadian textbook of psychiatry published in French [20] and in Mendlewicz’s treatise of biological psychiatry [7 a]. Ruillon [46] reviewed the use of depression rating scales by French general practitioners.