Do I need to request permission to use Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory or I can simply use them since they are available in the public domain. How I can decide that any given survey is in the public domain or not ?!
Obviously you can use BDI as it does not say that it is only for psychologists:
https://www.ismanet.org/doctoryourspirit/pdfs/Beck-Depression-Inventory-BDI.pdf
I think you need a permission, see attached linke
https://beckinstitute.org/get-informed/tools-and-resources/professionals/patient-assessment-tools/
It's easy to check with the publishers or creators if permission is required.
it's not only the problems of the publishers or the creators, it is about a principle: are social sciences a global commons or not?
Standardized tools are permissible for its usage only thing is we need to acknowledge the author of the tool.
But there are certain scales where Authors/publishers require fee for providing the questionnaires??
BDI II requires fee, I wonder if older version BDI also require fee.
how can i get the permission to use the Beck depression inventory tool as i require it for my dissertation work? please help me to get a solution for getting the permission.
If it has already been psychometrically tested in your country, you can use it, otherwise, you must send a message to the medical author and designer and get permission to psychometrically test it.
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