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Depression screening
Description
Fifty general hospital patients, admitted to the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, were randomly drawn from a larger sample described by Clarke et al. (1993). Agreement between two different screening tests and a diagnosis of depression was compared. Definition of depression included DSM-III-R Major Depression, Dysthymia, Adjustment Disorderwith Depressed Mood, and Depression NOS. Depression was determined empirically using the Cutoff (McKenzie & Clarke, 1992) program. The screening tests consisted of
Usage
depression
Format
A matrix with 50 observations and 3 variables:
- depression
diagnoses as determined by the Cutoff program
- BDI
Beck Depression Inventory
- GHQ
General Health Questionnaire
Details
the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck et al., 1961) and
the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) (Goldberg & Williams, 1988)
References
McKenzie, D. P. et al., Comparing Correlated Kappas by Resampling: Is One Level of Agreement Significantly Different from Another? J. psychiat. Res, Vol. 30, 1996. doi:10.1016/S0022-3956(96)00033-7