SHAPS-C: The Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale modified for clinician administration

National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Department of Clinical Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, United States
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, England
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.288v1
Subject Areas
Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords
Self-Assessment, Anhedonia, Depression, Clinician administered, Self-Assessment
Copyright
© 2014 Ameil et al.
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Ameil R, Luckenbaugh DA, Gould NF, Holmes MK, Lally N, Ballard ED, Zarate Jr. CA. 2014. SHAPS-C: The Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale modified for clinician administration. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e288v1

Abstract

Anhedonia, a diminished or lack of ability to experience and anticipate pleasure represents a core psychiatric symptom in depression. Current clinician assessment of anhedonia is generally limited to one or two all-purpose questions and most well-known psychometric scales of anhedonia are relatively long, self-administered, typically not state sensitive, and are unsuitable for use in clinical settings. A user-friendly tool for a more in-depth clinician assessment of hedonic capacity is needed. The present study assessed the validity and reliability of a clinician administered version of the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale, the SHAPS-C, in 34 depressed subjects. We compared total and specific item scores on the SHAPS-C, SHAPS (self-report version), Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), and the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Rating version (IDS-SR). We also examined construct, content, concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity, internal consistency, and split-half reliability of the SHAPS-C. The SHAPS-C was found to be valid and reliable. The SHAPS and the SHAPS-C were positively correlated with one another, with levels of depression severity, as measured by the MADRS, and the IDS-SR total scores, and with specific items of the MADRS and IDS-SR sensitive to measuring hedonic capacity. Our investigation indicates that the SHAPS-C is a user friendly, reliable, and valid tool for clinician assessment of hedonic capacity in depressed bipolar and unipolar patients.