Table 1.

Rating Scale Suicidality and Depressed Mood Items

Rating Scale	Suicidality Item	Depressed Mood Item
HDRS	Item 3	Item 1
	0. Absent	0. Absent
	1. Feels life is not worth living	1. These feeling states indicated only on questioning
	2. Wishes he were dead or any thoughts of possible death to self	2. These feeling states spontaneously reported verbally
	3. Suicide ideas or gestures	3. Communicates feeling states nonverbally, ie, through facial expression, posture, voice, and tendency to weep
	4. Attempts at suicide	4. Patient reports virtually only these feeling states in his/her spontaneous verbal and nonverbal communication
SIGH-SAD	Item H11	Item H1
	0. Absent	0. Absent
	1. Feels life is not worth living	1. These feeling states indicated only on questioning
	2. Wishes he were dead or any thoughts of possible death to self	2. These feeling states spontaneously reported verbally
	3. Suicide ideas or gestures	3. Communicates feeling states nonverbally, ie, through facial expression, posture, voice, and tendency to weep
	4. Attempts at suicide	4. Patient reports virtually only these feeling states in his/her spontaneous verbal and nonverbal communication
MADRS	Item 10	Item 1
	0. Enjoys life or takes it as it comes	0. No sadness
	1	1
	2. Weary of life, only fleeting suicidal thoughts	2. Looks dispirited but does brighten up without difficulty
	3	3
	4. Probably better off dead, suicidal thoughts are common, and suicide is considered as a possible solution but without specific plans or intentions	4. Appears sad or unhappy most of the time
	5	5
	6. Explicit plans for suicide when there is an opportunity, active preparations for suicide	6. Looks miserable all of the time, extremely despondent
IDS	Item 18	Item 5
	0. Does not think of suicide or death	0. Does not feel sad
	1. Feels life is empty or is not worth living	1. Feels sad less than half the time
	2. Thinks of suicide/death several times a week for several minutes	2. Feels sad more than half the time
	3. Thinks of suicide/death several times a day in depth, or has made specific plans or attempted suicide	3. Feels intensely sad virtually all of the time
BDI	Item 9	Item 1
	0. I don't have any thoughts of killing myself	0. I do not feel sad
	1. I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not carry them out	1. I feel sad
	2. I would like to kill myself	2. I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it
	3. I would kill myself if I had the chance	3. I am so sad or unhappy that I can't stand it

Abbreviations: BDI = Beck Depression Inventory, HDRS = Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, IDS = Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, MADRS = Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale, SIGH-SAD = Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Seasonal Affective Disorder version.