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Redundancy in measures of depression
Author(s) -
Fitzgibbon Marian L.,
Cella David F.,
Sweeney John A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198805)44:3<372::aid-jclp2270440310>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , psychoanalysis , economics , macroeconomics
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.