VALIDITY OF THE SHAHIN MIXED DEPRESSION SCALE: A SELF-RATED INSTRUMENT DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE NON-DSM MIXED FEATURES IN DEPRESSION

Islam Shahin,1 Caterina Del Mar Bonnin,2 Elsayed Saleh,3 Khaled Helmy,4,5 Usama M Youssef,6 Eduard Vieta2 1Cairo Mood Center, Cairo, Egypt; 2Barcelona Bipolar Disorders and Depressive Unit, Hospital Clinic, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; 3Department of Psychiatry, Mansoura Univers

This study investigated the effects of the 6 Minutes Journal (6MT), a commercial diary combining several positive psychology interventions, including gratitude, goal-setting, and self-affirmation exercises, on several mental health outcome measures.In a randomized controlled trial, university students (N = 157) were randomly assigned to one of two