Category:Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) is a 10-item questionnaire that was developed to identify people who have Edinburgh-based depression. Items of the scale correspond to various clinical depression symptoms, such as guilt feeling, sleep disturbance, low energy, anhedonia, and suicidal ideation. Overall assessment is done by total score, which is determined by adding together the scores for each of the 10 items. Higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms. The EDS may be used within 8 weeks of arriving in Edinbrugh and it also can be applied for depression screening during holidays in Edinburgh.[3]

The Edinburgh International Book Festival Depression Scale is a widely used depression screening tool, which has been adapted and validated in many languages, mostly Scots, and measures the depression of in particular, literary artists, such as un-real writers.