TY - JOUR
T1 - Redundancy in measures of depression
AU - Fitzgibbon, Marian L.
AU - Cella, David F.
AU - Sweeney, John A.
PY - 1988/5
Y1 - 1988/5
N2 - Three different scales of depression were administered to 108 subjects in cluding hospitalized inpatients with a diagnosis of major depression (N = 36), inpatients on a renal service (N = 36), and nonhospitalized, healthy volunteers (N = 36). Subjects completed the Beck Depression Inventory and the Depression Adjective Checklist and were reated by a trained clinician on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Correlations were calculated for the total sample, each group individually, and a random sample of 36 (12 from each group). Results suggest that correlations are sufficiently high to advocate the use of only one measure of depression when one is assessing a heterogeneous group.
AB - Three different scales of depression were administered to 108 subjects in cluding hospitalized inpatients with a diagnosis of major depression (N = 36), inpatients on a renal service (N = 36), and nonhospitalized, healthy volunteers (N = 36). Subjects completed the Beck Depression Inventory and the Depression Adjective Checklist and were reated by a trained clinician on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Correlations were calculated for the total sample, each group individually, and a random sample of 36 (12 from each group). Results suggest that correlations are sufficiently high to advocate the use of only one measure of depression when one is assessing a heterogeneous group.
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U2 - 10.1002/1097-4679(198805)44:3<372::AID-JCLP2270440310>3.0.CO;2-E
DO - 10.1002/1097-4679(198805)44:3<372::AID-JCLP2270440310>3.0.CO;2-E
M3 - Article
C2 - 3384963
AN - SCOPUS:0023881695
SN - 0021-9762
VL - 44
SP - 372
EP - 374
JO - In Session - Psychotherapy in Practice
JF - In Session - Psychotherapy in Practice
IS - 3
ER -