title: Convergent validity of the Beck depression inventory-II with the reynolds adolescent depression scale in psychiatric inpatients.
abstract: The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) and the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS; Reynolds, 1987) were administered to 56 female and 44 male psychiatric inpatients whose ages ranged from 12 to 17 years old. The Cronbach coefficient alpha(s) for the BDI-II and RADS were, respectively, .92 and .91 and indicated comparably high levels of internal consistency. The correlation between the BDI-II and RADS total scores was .84,p <.001. Binormal receiver-operating-characteristic analyses indicated that both instruments were comparably effective in differentiating inpatients who were and were not diagnosed with a major depressive disorder; the areas under the ROC curves for the BDI-II and RADS were, respectively, .78 and .76. The results (a) indicate that the BDI-II and the RADS have similar psychometric characteristics and (b) support the convergent validity of the BDI-II for assessing self-reported depression in adolescent inpatients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 08084-1391, USA.
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Krefetz
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: Nazli A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Gulab
authors.forename: Aaron T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009515:New Jersey; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index