title: [Psychopathometric methods for the testing of psychopharmaceuticals. Efficiency increase].
abstract: The rentability of tests of psychopharmacological drugs can essentially be influenced by psychopathometric procedures. Shortness and simplicity of the test decisively adds to the rentability and the validity of the examination. Procedures considering patients' demands, also demand a high amount of variation and robustness by which (1) the validity is increased and (2) the rentability is decreased. Investigations in time series make further economizing of tests possible, if - valid for reversible physically caused psychosis and cyclothymical depression - symptoms and syndromes will be changed in a rectifying manner. This is shown in a study with the antidepressant Mefexamid given to depressive patients. From these patients were taken one objective and three self-rating scales. In these cases each test on its own gave 84% of the information which it had given together with a second scale.
mesh_terms: D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: Psychopathometrische Verfahren bei der Prüfung von Psychopharmaka. Zur Frage der Rentabilitätserhöhung.