title: Use of nonsomatic symptoms to differentiate clinically depressed and nondepressed hospitalized patients with chronic medical illnesses.
abstract: The differential sensitivity of the Depression subscale scores of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Cognitive-Affective subscale scores of the revised Beck Depression Inventory were compared for 21 chronic medically ill hospitalized patients with DSM-III--R unipolar depressive disorders and 54 hospitalized medically ill patients without a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Both subscales significantly differentiated these two types of patients beyond the .001 level and yielded comparable effect sizes. The Cognitive-Affective subscale detected clinical depression as well as a specialized self-report measure.
authors.affiliation: University of New Brunswick, NJ.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Steer
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012803:Sick Role