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hamd_15

Hamd 15
Instrument: Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HDRS)
Form: Hamd
Type: Radio
Source File: ClinicianScalesPhoneCheckinsV2_2026-01-07
Year Commenced: 2006
Collection Frequency: Annually
Required: Yes
Identifier: No

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15. Hypochondriasis in the last week, how much have your thoughts been focused on your physical health or how your body is working? what have your thoughts been? have you thought about this more than you did before you became depressed? have you worried that you might be sick or have some type of physical illness?if yes: what are you afraid you have? have you seen a doctor about these problems?if yes: what did the doctor say? severity how much time have you spent thinking about this? how worried have you been about this? how sure are you that you have (illness)? frequency during the past week, how often did you think about this? how much of the time did you think about this? how many days in the past week?(was it every day? how much of each day?)

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0, 0 - Absent 1, 1 - Mild. Some preoccupation with bodily functions and symptoms. Trivial or doubtfully pathological score 1 2, 2 - Moderate. Much attention given to physical symptoms. Patient expresses thoughts of organic disease with tendency to "somatize" clinical presentation. 3, 3 - Severe. Convictions of organic disease to explain present condition, e.g., brain, tumor, cancer. 4, 4 - Extreme. (Uncommon in men). Hypochondriacal delusions, often with guilty associations, e.g. of syphilis, worm eating head, rotting inside, bowels blocked and will never function again, infecting other patients with bad odor, etc.
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