השוואת שיטות

	שאלון בק להערכת דיכאון-II (BDI-II)	סולם מונטגומרי-אסברג להערכת דיכאון (MADRS)
תחום	פסיכולוגיה קלינית	פסיכולוגיה קלינית
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1996	1979
הוגה השיטה	Aaron T. Beck	Stuart Montgomery & Marie Åsberg
סוג	Self-report questionnaire	Clinician-rated interview scale
מקור מכונן	Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Brown, G. K. (1996). Beck Depression Inventory (2nd ed.). San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation. ISBN: 9780151840045	Montgomery, S. A., & Åsberg, M. (1979). A new depression scale designed to be sensitive to change. British Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 382–389.
כינויים	BDI-II, Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition	MADRS, Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale
קשורות	4	5
תקציר	The Beck Depression Inventory-II is a 21-item self-report instrument designed to assess the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in adolescents and adults. Originally published by Aaron T. Beck in 1961 and revised significantly in 1996, the BDI-II is one of the most widely used depression assessment tools in clinical psychology and psychiatry. It is copyrighted and distributed by Pearson Assessments, and measures both cognitive and somatic symptoms of depression across a two-week timeframe.	The Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale is a 10-item clinician-rated assessment designed by Stuart Montgomery and Marie Åsberg in 1979 to measure depression severity and track treatment response. Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the MADRS was developed as an alternative to longer instruments like the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, emphasizing items most sensitive to treatment change. It has become a primary outcome measure in antidepressant trials and is widely used in both research and clinical practice across psychiatry, primary care, and medical specialty settings.