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Identifying Depression in Medical Patients
Author(s) -
Davis Terry,
Jensen Louise
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00074.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , medical illness , depressive symptoms , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , cognition , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐III: Major Depressive Episode Section (SCID) as nursing assessment tools to detect depression in medically ill patients were evaluated by comparing depression ratings obtained by a nurse using these tools with depression ratings obtained by a therapist using an unstructured diagnostic interview. The subjects were 52 myocardial infarction patients assessed at hospital discharge and 8 weeks later. The findings suggest that, while the BDI serves as an indicator of depression, the SCID is the optimal method for assessing depression in patients with medical illness.