User:Ongmianli/Mood and Feelings Questionnaire

This is an assessment template that can be used to create Wikipedia articles on noted psychological assessments.

In general, according to WP:MEDRS, medical articles should be written in the following format:

Lead section (Jazmin)
This will be the lead section. This section should give a quick summary of what the assessment is. Here are some pointers (please do not use bullet points when writing article):


 * What are its acronyms? MFQ (Mood and Feelings Questionnaire), SMFQ (Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire)
 * What is its purpose? is a 33-item questionnaire based on DSM-III-R criteria for depression. The MFQ consists of a series of descriptive phrases regarding how the subject has been feeling or acting recently. Codings reflect whether the phrase was descriptive of the subject most of the time, sometimes, or not at all in the past two weeks.Target Population: Children and adolescents ages 8-18 Time to Administer: 5-10 minutes Completed By: Child, parent  Modalities Available: Hand-written  Scoring Information: Each item is to be rated on a 3-point Likert scale: "true", "sometimes true", and "not true" with respect to the events of the past two weeks.
 * What population is it intended for? What do the items measure?
 * How long does it take to administer?
 * Who (individual or groups) was it created by? Adrian Angold and Elizabeth J. Costello in 1987.
 * How many questions are inside? Is it multiple choice?
 * What has been its impact on the clinical world in general?
 * Who uses it? Clinicians? Researchers? What settings?

Versions (Hannah)
There are two versions of the MFQ, the Long Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (LMFQ) and the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ). Each version comes in a group of three; the Child Self Report, the Parent Report on Child and the Adult Self-Report.

The Long Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (LMFQ)  The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) 
 * The Child Self Report
 * The Parent Report on Child
 * The Adult Self-Report
 * The Child Self Report
 * The Parent Report on Child
 * The Adult Self-Report

Reliability (Adrienne, Chloe, Arina)
The rubrics for evaluating reliability and validity are here. You will evaluate the instrument based on these rubrics. Then, you will delete the code for the rubric and complete the table (located after the rubrics). Don't forget to adjust the headings once you copy/paste the table in!

An example using the table from the General Behavior Inventory is attached below.

Development and history (Kaylin, Ruchi)

 * Why was this instrument developed? Why was there a need to do so? What need did it meet?
 * What was the theoretical background behind this assessment? (e.g. addresses importance of 'negative cognitions', such as intrusions, inaccurate, sustained thoughts)
 * How was the scale developed? What was the theoretical background behind it?
 * How are these questions reflected in applications to theories, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
 * If there were previous versions, when were they published?
 * Discuss the theoretical ideas behind the changes

The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) was developed by Angold et al. to be a more cost-effective and time-efficient measure of psychiatric assessment in children and adults. The SMFQ allows children to self-report their symptoms and their parents to to report for comparison. The SMFQ was developed to create a brief questionnaire that could be useful in cases where a large annual or semi-annual assessment wouldn’t be appropriate.

Impact

 * What was the impact of this assessment? How did it affect assessment in psychiatry, psychology and health care professionals?
 * What can the assessment be used for in clinical settings? Can it be used to measure symptoms longitudinally? Developmentally?

Use in other populations

 * How widely has it been used? Has it been translated into different languages? Which languages?

Research

 * Any recent research done that is pertinent?

Limitations

 * If self report, what are usual limitations of self-report?
 * State the status of this assessment (is it copyrighted? If free, link to it).

Example page

 * General Behavior Inventory