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THE COMMUNITIES THAT CARE BRIEF DEPRESSION SCALE: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND CRITERION VALIDITY
Author(s) -
Rhew Isaac C.,
Monahan Kathryn C.,
Oesterle Sabrina,
Hawkins J. David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21766
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , patient health questionnaire , psychology , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , criterion validity , juvenile delinquency , concurrent validity , receiver operating characteristic , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , psychometrics , medicine , construct validity , anxiety , physics , internal consistency , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics
For community‐level approaches to preventing depression, measures of depression that are brief as well as valid are needed, particularly given competing demands in surveys for assessment of other outcomes including substance use, delinquency, and their associated risk factors. This study examined the validity of a 4‐item adolescent depression measure, the Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale (CTC‐BDS). Data were obtained from a survey of adolescents (N = 3939) participating in the Community Youth Development Study (CYDS), a community‐randomized trial involving 24 U.S. towns. The Patient Health Questionnaire 9‐item (PHQ‐9) was the criterion standard used to define major depressive disorder. Sensitivity and specificity of the CTC‐BDS were both > .8 at a cutpoint of 6 and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was .91. Its strong psychometric properties and brevity make the CTC‐BDS a useful measure for communities to monitor levels of youth depression.