Comparing sensitivity to change using the 6-item versus the 17-item Hamilton depression rating scale in the GUIDED randomized controlled trial.

BMC Psychiatry · 2019 · PMC6935147 · PMID 31881956

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did not achieve significancep = 0.069so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

We hypothesized that the more sensitive and unidimensional HAM-D6 would detect a statistically significant difference in symptom improvement between the guided-care and TAU arms, whereas the difference approached but did not achieve significance ( p = 0.069) using HAM-D17.

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