The Hypomanic Check List
Welcome to the official website of the Hypomanic Check List Questionnaire! Here you will find all the required background information and ongoing work with this important measure. The website consists of the following sections:
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Research Goals & Development of HCL
Page 3: Selection of Patients for HCL Studies
Page 4: Epidemiological Studies & Comparison with Other Instruments
Page 5: Publications & References
Page 6: Contact Information (webgroup/mailing list)
NEW - We Just Launched our Online Web-Survey with HCL-32, titled:
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*remember to mention that you found the survey through BipolarLab.com in order to assist with our data analysis. If you wish to have a report provide your contact details at the end of the survey. Unfortunately, we do NOT have yet the facility in place to provide individual reports, but we are working on it. Your data at this stage will help us to provide accurate individual responses in the future.
Introduction
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The HCL-32 is a checklist of 32 items for the self-assessment of hypomania. It is currently used in research projects as a screening instrument in order to identify potential cases of bipolarity and to help the clinician to diagnose major and minor bipolar disorder in patients with a current or a previous history of depression. |
The HCL was developed by Professor Jules Angst who also leads the current work.
Source article (includes scale in english, italian, and swedish)*:
Angst, J., R. Adolfsson, et al. (2005). “The HCL-32: a self assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms.” Journal of Affective Disorders 88: 217-233. click here to request a pdf copy of the article
The development of the HCL is an international collaborative effort. Translations (forth and back) of the HCL-32 exist into the following languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Croatian, Russian, German, Greek, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Sardinian Italian, Hungarian, Taiwan Chinese and mainland Chinese. Currently the instrument is in translation into Arabic (Lebanon).
(The remaining HCL-32 scales from different languages will be added shortly)
