Talk:The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire

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Things to add next

This is a good start! Let's look at adding: Advantages: Available for free; better model of depression than may other measures (which often just measure distress rather than depression per se); used in a range of epidemiological as well as clinical samples; some translations available.

Limitations: Not a lot of information about sensitivity to treatment effects.

It also could be helpful to mention factor structure, reliability, SE of difference (expected precision of scores with repeated testing). With there being epidemiological data, should be possible to construct Jacobson & Truax benchmarks.

Based on reviews and a meta-analysis, as well as the measure being publicly available, this page is a priority to flesh out. It is one of the "Best of the Free" and it addresses a common issue.

Thanks for all the work on this!

Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 14:15, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

References from Duke Center for Developmental Epidemiology

In addition to downloads for the MFQ, the Duke Center for Developmental Epidemiology's page about the MFQ provides, with permission from the publisher), PDFs for two 1995 articles by Angold, Messer, et. al. about development of the Short MFQ. I don't have time to integrate this information into the article right now, but I've wikified the citations for future use:

• Angold, A.; Costello, E.J.; Messer, S.C.; Pickles, A.; Winder, F.; Silver, D. (1995). "The development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents" (PDF). International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 5: 237–249.
• Messer, S.C.; Angold, A.; Costello, E.J.; Loeber, R.; Van Kammen, W.; Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1995). "Development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents: Factor composition and structure across development" (PDF). International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 5: 251–262.

Another PDF on that page lists seven additional references suggested by Adrian Angold. Note that all of these are primary research, not secondary sources, I include them here only because they maybe useful for locating relevant meta-analyses and/or review articles.

• Daviss, W. Burleson; Birmaher, Boris; Melhem, Nadine A.; Axelson, David A.; Michaels, Shana M.; Brent, David A. (September 2006). "Criterion validity of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire for depressive episodes in clinic and non-clinic subjects". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 47 (9): 927–934. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01646.x. PMID 16930387.
• Kent, Lindsey; Vostanis, Panos; Feehan, Catherine (July 1997). "Detection of major and minor depression in children and adolescents: Evaluation of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 38 (5): 565–573. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01543.x.
• Kuo, Elena S.; Vander Stoep, Ann; Stewart, David G. (December 2005). "Using the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire to Detect Depression in Detained Adolescents". Assessment. 12 (4): 374–383. doi:10.1177/1073191105279984.
• Sharp, Carla; Goodyer, Ian M.; Croudace, Tim J. (June 2006). "The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ): A Unidimensional Item Response Theory and Categorical Data Factor Analysis of Self-Report Ratings from a Community Sample of 7-through 11-Year-Old Children". Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 34 (3): 379–391. doi:10.1007/s10802-006-9027-x. PMID 16649000.
• Sund, AM; Larsson, B; Wichstrom, L (December 2001). "Depressive symptoms among young Norwegian adolescents as measured by The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ)". European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 10 (4): 222–229. doi:10.1007/s007870170011. PMID 11794547.
• Thapar, Anita; McGuffin, Peter (November 1998). "Validity of the shortened Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in a community sample of children and adolescents: A preliminary research note". Psychiatry Research. 81 (2): 259–268. doi:10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00073-0.
• Wood, Alison; Kroll, Leo; Moore, Ann; Harrington, Richard (February 1995). "Properties of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in adolescent psychiatric outpatients: A research note". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 36 (2): 327–334. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01828.x. PMID 7759594.

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