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Screening for Adolescent Depression: A Comparison of Depression Scales

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ROBERTS, ROBERT E., LEWINSOHN, PETER M., SEELEY, JOHN R.·1991·Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
DOI 10.1097/00004583-199101000-00009
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The ability of two depression scales, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), to identify cases of DSM-III-R major depression and dysthymia was investigated in a large, community sample of high school students. Receiver operating characteristics analyses indicated that different caseness criteria should be used for boys and girls for both the CES-D and the BDI. Internal consistency-reliability and sensitivity and specificity for detecting current episodes of current depression and dysthymia were adequate and comparable to those found with adult samples, but both the CES-D and the BDI generated many false positives. Multiple screening using the "serial" strategy increased positive predictive power substantially for both the CES-D and the BDI, whereas using the "parallel" strategy had very little effect on the efficacy of the two screeners. The results indicate that neither the BDI nor the CES-D should be used by themselves as methods for case ascertainment in either epidemiological or experimental studies, although the BDI does function somewhat better than the CES-D as a screener.

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  1. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1987, Special Section: structured diagnostic interviews for children and adolescents, J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 26, 611

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Authors
ROBERTS, R. E., LEWINSOHN, P. M., & SEELEY, J. R.
Affiliations
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
  • Oregon Research Institute (US)
Corresponding author
ROBERTS, ROBERT E.
Venue
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1991-01
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
58-66
ISSN
0890-8567 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1097/00004583-199101000-00009
OpenAlex
W2053115639
Cited by
850
References
51
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FWCI
18.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH040501, MH40501)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Keywords
adolescent depression, depression screening, CES-D, Beck Depression Inventory, major depressive disorder, dysthymia, high school students, false positives, positive predictive value, sensitivity and specificity
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Tests, Psychometrics, Cohort Studies

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