title: Comparison between clinician-rated and self-reported depressive symptoms in Italian psychiatric patients.
abstract: The Inventory for Depressive Symptomatology is a new scale for measuring depressive symptoms. The reliability, validity and correlations between self-report and clinician-rated versions of the scale were examined in 86 Italian psychiatric patients. Results confirmed the validity and internal consistency of the scales. Self-ratings and clinician ratings were highly correlated. Total score on the self-rating scale was generally higher than the corresponding clinician scale score. Item analysis revealed that most items were rated slightly higher by self-report, with the items contributing most to this discrepancy being psychomotor agitation and retardation, self-outlook, and irritable mood. Both quality of mood and psychomotor agitation were more frequently endorsed by self-report than by clinician rating.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Clinica Psichiatrica, Italia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tondo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burrai
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Scamonatti
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weissenburger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rush
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics