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Table 8 Presentation of examples of further modified severity assessment on Criterion A

From: Symmetrical treatment of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition”, for major depressive disorders

Symptom number

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

 

Modified episode

row 1 (= {‹A1›∙Ar})

2

5

3

0

6

2

0

4

1

(mod 7)

1

row 2 (={‹A2›∙Ar})

0

2

0

0

4

0

0

2

3

(mod 7)

0

row 3 (= {‹A3›∙Ar})

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

3

0

(mod 7)

0

row 4 (= {‹A4›∙Ar})

5

4

0

2

1

0

3

0

6

(mod 7)

0

row 5 (= {‹A5›∙Ar})

0

6

4

1

0

0

0

0

2

(mod 7)

0

row 6 (= {‹A6›∙Ar})

1

5

3

0

1

4

0

0

1

(mod 7)

1

row 7 (= row 4) (= {‹A7›∙Ar})

5

4

0

2

1

0

3

0

6

(mod 7)

0

row 8 (= row 2) (= {‹A8›∙Ar})

0

2

0

0

4

0

0

2

3

(mod 7)

0

row 9 (= {‹A9›∙Ar})

0

6

4

1

0

0

0

0

2

(mod 7)

0

row 10 (= row 4) (= {‹A10›∙Ar})

5

4

0

2

1

0

3

0

6

(mod 7)

0

Total sum

18

38

14

13

18

6

9

11

30

 

5

Averages

1.8

3.8

1.4

1.3

1.8

0.6

0.9

1.1

3.0

 

0.2

  1. The indication for item selection as being effective; Ar = [11|02|13|04|15|16|17|08|19||0 10 |0 11 |0 12 |…] (mod 2) over Table 3
  2. A further modified (sub)scale based on Criterion A is presented. Here, the first, third, sixth, seventh and ninth items are effective. The order of effectiveness via selection of items is Ar = [σ123456789||0 10 |0 11 |0 12 |…] (mod 2) = [11|02|13|04|15|16|17|08|19||0 10 |0 11 |0 12 |…] (mod 2). If the j-th row (in this case, j = 1,2,3,…10) in Table 3 is expressed as ‹Aj›, then the modified (sub)scale is provided by the inner product ‹Aj› ∙ Ar, where effective items are denoted by the value 1 and ineffective items by the value 0. The omitted display for the j-th row is given by {‹Aj› ∙ Ar}. If the components with σi = 0 are used at this time; however, these ineffective results of assessments are expected to be stored implicitly and can be pulled out as explicit data when needed in, for example, a future upgrade of criteria of the DSM. The extreme right column indicates the presence/absence of a ‘modified episode’ relating to item selection of Criterion A when the episode needs four of six symptoms for the diagnosis, with at least one of them being symptom (1)