Depressive and anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health disorders worldwide. Considering the patient's burden in particular, clinicians seek the right diagnostic approaches and tools to precede and sustainably ensure a precise therapy, following evidence-based guidelines.
Until now, as psychiatry predominantly lacks so-called 'objective' biological markers, the subjective clinical impression and assessment of the trained mental health professional are necessary to reach a diagnosis of a mental health disorder according to the current classification systems (DSM-5 and ICD-10/ICD-11).
Against this background, there is an ongoing need for the right biopsychosocial tools that help to support and perhaps standardize the diagnostic and therapeutic process, to ensure validity and reliability of medical or psychological procedures against the different requirements of clinicians and scientists in the field.
Psychometric instruments, scales, and measurements are proven tools in the monitoring of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Nevertheless, there is a need for further development and evaluation of these instruments; for example, in considering new insights and understandings of mental health disorders, their etiology, and treatment.
This Research Topic welcomes:
• studies assessing the validity of psychometric tests to monitor depression and anxiety
• studies on the psychometric properties of scales and measurements of psychometric tests for depression and anxiety
• studies on the reliability, validity, and measurements of psychometric tests for depression and anxiety.
Depressive and anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health disorders worldwide. Considering the patient's burden in particular, clinicians seek the right diagnostic approaches and tools to precede and sustainably ensure a precise therapy, following evidence-based guidelines.
Until now, as psychiatry predominantly lacks so-called 'objective' biological markers, the subjective clinical impression and assessment of the trained mental health professional are necessary to reach a diagnosis of a mental health disorder according to the current classification systems (DSM-5 and ICD-10/ICD-11).
Against this background, there is an ongoing need for the right biopsychosocial tools that help to support and perhaps standardize the diagnostic and therapeutic process, to ensure validity and reliability of medical or psychological procedures against the different requirements of clinicians and scientists in the field.
Psychometric instruments, scales, and measurements are proven tools in the monitoring of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Nevertheless, there is a need for further development and evaluation of these instruments; for example, in considering new insights and understandings of mental health disorders, their etiology, and treatment.
This Research Topic welcomes:
• studies assessing the validity of psychometric tests to monitor depression and anxiety
• studies on the psychometric properties of scales and measurements of psychometric tests for depression and anxiety
• studies on the reliability, validity, and measurements of psychometric tests for depression and anxiety.