Validation of the Spanish Version of the Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS) Scale

AstraZeneca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Unipolar Depression

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01360307

NIS-NES-XXX-2011/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS) is a brief, self-administered instrument that not only evaluates depressive symptoms but also both functioning and quality of life. The assessment of patients´ perspective may provide valuable information that could be lost if relaying only on clinician evaluation. The purpose of this study is to achieve a psychometric validation into Spanish of the CUDOS scale in patients with major depression disorder in a primary care setting.

Enrollment: 330 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major depression disorder diagnosis according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) criteria in the last 3 months
• Major depression disorder diagnosis according to Prime-MD criteria in the last 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• Be unable to understand and comply with the study requirements as judged by the investigator
• Participation in another trial prior to enrolment into this study

Trial design

330 participants in 1 patient group

Major Depressive Disorder Patients