Mood disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders that can affect a person's mood, energy, and motivation. Emotional blunting has been observed in clinical practice in patients with mood disorders. Emotional blunting has a negative impact on patients' overall treatment and leads to poorer adherence. The Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ) is a measuring instrument of emotional blunting. The ODQ is expected to be a scientifically valid tool for detecting emotional blunting. The ODQ has high construct validity and internal reliability. However, no scientific validity studies have been conducted on ODQ in Chinese population. Therefore, this study is intended to investigate the reliability and validity of the ODQ in Chinese patients with mood disorders.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
272
The Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ)is a patient-centered questionnaire. The scale contains three sections: i) the patient's experience in the past week; ii) the patient's experience before the illness worsened, and iii) the patient's emotional feelings about receiving antidepressant treatment. The 26-item questionnaire contains four dimensions of "emotional blunting": not caring (NC), emotional detachment from others (ED), reduction in positive emotions (RP), and general reduction in emotions (GR). Patients not taking antidepressants were only required to rate the first two sections .
Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ)
To analyze reliability and validity of the ODQ.
Time frame: baseline
Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
To analyze criterion validity of the Chinese version of the ODQ
Time frame: baseline
Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
To analyze correlation with ODQ
Time frame: baseline
Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ)
To analyze Test-retest reliability coefficients of the ODQ.
Time frame: 2 weeks after baseline
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