The Clinical Studies on Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Applied to Depressive Psychoses and Normals

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  • うつ病者ならびに正常人における顕在性不安検査(MAS)およびベックうつ病評定法(BDI)の臨床的研究

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The purpose of this study is to report the use of the Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in the clinical evaluation fo the degree of anxiety and depression in manic-depressive psychoses and in normals as control.In this investigation, 74 manic-depressive patients and 130 normal subjects were evaluated, and the following results were obtained.1.For the normal group, the mean of the MAS score was 17.40 (SD 8.18). According to the five-type classification of MAS score, of the 130 subjects, 14 (10.8%) were rated as Type I, 19 (14.6%) as Type II, 47 (36.1%) as Type III, 26 (20.0%) as Type IV and 24 (18.5%) as Type V.As for the BDI score with these normal subjects, the mean of its score was 7.95 (SD 6.19). According to the three-type classification of BDI socre, of the 130 subjects, 105 (80.8%) were rated as 'manimally or non-depressed', 23 (17.7%) as, midly to moderately depressed, and 2 (1.5%) as 'highly depressed'.These MAS and BDI scores, when viewed together in their interrelation, indicate that' while few of the low anxiety group show 'depressive state', many of the high anxiety group show 'high depressive state'.2. For the patient group, the mean of the MAS score was 29.83 (SD 7.32) in high depressibe state, 24.69 (SD 8.14) in preremission and 15.95 (SD 8.32) in remission.In this score of MAS, the number of those rated as high anxiety group (Types I and II) was 29 (93.6%) out of the 31 in high depressive state, 16 (69.6%) out of the 23 in preremissio and 6 (30.0%) out of the 20 in remission.The mean of the BDI score with these patient group was 26.54 (SD 6.67) in high depressive state, 15.13 (SD 6.36) in preremission and 4.15 (SD 3.52) in remission.In this way, the MAS and the BDI scores evidently have a close connection with each other, and they indicate that, as the state passes from 'high depressive' to 'preremission'm that is, as depression goes on the abate, the number of those in high anxiety decreases and that of those in low anxiety increases.

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