title: [Markers of depressive mood in puberty using the Kovacs Children's Depression Inventory].
abstract: This study is based on the German version "KDI" of the "CDI" according to Maria Kovacs used in investigations on random selection of normal school population between the 7-th and 9-th grades (n = 130). The pupils ages ranged between 13 and 15 years. A second group was also used, made up of children of approximately the same age (n = 145) from a clinic. Among this second group, 58 suffered from clinical depression. The comparison provided a clear separation between the depressive patients and the normal random participants - and the CDI/KDI total value = 20 was decided to be the optimal separation value. Comparisons with a Canadian group of school pupils (n = 850) agreed well with the above. Follow-up examinations on the random selection of normal school population resulted in the detection of a lasting condition of depressive moodiness for 7 per cent of the participants. The international title "GCDI" is suggested for the modified German version of the KDI (1986) which corresponds to the CDI of Kovacs (1981).
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Kinderneuropsychiatrie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lobert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D011627:Puberty / Q000523:psychology*; D012016:Reference Values
vernacular_title: Untersuchung von Merkmalen depressiver Verstimmung in der Pubertät mit dem Kinder-Depressions-Inventar nach Kovacs.