title: Redundancy in measures of depression.
abstract: Three different scales of depression were administered to 108 subjects including 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 rated 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.
authors.affiliation: New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Fitzgibbon
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Cella
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012803:Sick Role