Table 1.
Articles included in the review results
| Author | Journal | Year | Type of study | Scales addressed in the study |
| Included by the search criteria (N=9) | ||||
| Hart et al.(12) | Psychosomatics | 1996 | Validation | CTD |
| Hart et al.(13) | J Psychosom Res | 1997 | Primary | CTD (abbreviated form) |
| Bergeron et al.(10) | Intensive Care Med | 2001 | Primary | ICDSC |
| Otter et al.(14) | Neurocrit Care | 2005 | Validation | DDS |
| Van Rompaey et al.(15) | Crit Care | 2008 | Validation | NEECHAM |
| Osse et al.(16) | Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg | 2009 | Comparative | DRS-R-98 |
| Shyamsundar et al.(17) | J Crit Care | 2009 | Validation | MDAS |
| Gusmao-Flores et al.(11) | Clinics (São Paulo) | 2011 | Validation | ICDSC |
| Neufeld et al.(18) | Psychosomatics | 2011 | Validation | ICDSC |
| Included after a second search, specific for each scale (N=7) | ||||
| Breitbart et al.(19) | J Pain Symptom Manage | 1997 | Validation | MDAS |
| Immers et al.(20) | BMC Nurs | 2005 | Validation | NEECHAM |
| Fadul et al.(21) | Support Care Cancer | 2007 | Validation | MDAS |
| de Negreiros et al.(22) | Int J Geriatr Psychiatry | 2008 | Validation | DRS-R-98 |
| Radtke et al.(23) | Br J Anaesth | 2008 | Comparative | DDS |
| Radtke et al.(24) | World J Surg | 2010 | Comparative | DDS |
| Tomasi et al.(25) | J Crit Care | 2012 | Comparative | ICDSC |