11-ITEM Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale: KADS-11

NAME: ___________________________________________________ CHART NUMBER:

_____________________________
DATE: ___________________________ ASSESSMENT COMPLETED BY:
_________________________________________

OVER THE LAST WEEK, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN "ON AVERAGE" OR "USUALLY" REGARDING THE FOLLOWING
ITEMS:

1. Low mood, sadness, feeling blah or down, depressed, just can't be bothered.

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0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

2. Irritable, loosing your temper easily, feeling pissed off, loosing

it.
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0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

3. Sleep Difficulties - different from your usual (over the years before you got
sick): trouble falling asleep, lying awake in bed.

ꀠ ꀠ ꀠ ꀠ
0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

4. Feeling Decreased Interest In: hanging out with friends; being with your best
with
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6. Feeling tired, feeling fatigued, low in energy, hard to get motivated, have to
push to get things done, want to rest or lie down a lot.

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0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

7. Trouble concentrating, can't keep your mind on schoolwork or work, daydreaming

when
you should be working, hard to focus when reading, getting "bored" with work or

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school.

0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

8. Feeling that life is not very much fun, not feeling good when usually (before
getting sick)
would feel good, not getting as much pleasure from fun things as usual (before

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getting sick).

0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

9. Feeling worried, nervous, panicky, tense, keyed up, anxious.

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0 - Hardly Ever 1 - Much of The Time 2 - Most of The Time 3 - All of The Time

10. Physical feelings of worry like: headaches, butterflies, nausea, tingling,

restlessness, diarrhea, shakes or tremors.

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11-ITEM Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale: KADS-11

OVERVIEW

The Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS) is a self-report

scale specifically
diagnosis and assessdesigned to
the severity of adolescent depression, and
versions include a item
16-item, a 11-
and an abbreviated 6-item
scale.

SCORING INTERPRETATION
There are no validated diagnostic categories associated with
particular
All ranges be
scores should of assessed
scores. relative to an individual patient's
baseline score
indicating (higherdepression,
worsening scores lower scores suggesting possible
improvement).

REFERENCE

LeBlanc JC, Almudevar A, Brooks SJ, Kutcher S: Screening for

Adolescent
Comparison Depression:
of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale with the Beck
Depression
Journal Inventory,
of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2002 Summer;
12(2):113-26.
Self-report instruments commonly used to assess depression in
adolescents
unknown have limited
reliability or
and validity in this age group. We describe a
new self-report
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Depression the Kutcher
(KADS), designed specifically to
diagnose and assess
of adolescent the severity
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