Abstract:

Psychological disorder has become a common disease in general hospitals, with low visit rate and diagnosis rate. As a quantitative tool, mental scales help doctors to identify psychological disorder. Three hundred and seventy-seven literatures from 1989 to 2010 are obtained through screening after searching with title and key words of  psychological and scale” from database. The application of commonly used mental scales such as Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale, Symptom Check-list 90, Self-rating Anxiety & Depression Scale, Hamilton Anxiety & Depression Scale and Center for Epidemiological Survey-Depression Scale in identification of psychological disorder in general hospitals is analysed in this paper.

Key words: mental scale, general hospital, psychological disorder, present condition, comparison