title: Normative data for female adolescents with eating disorders on the Children's Depression Inventory.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Given the importance of assessing depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in adolescents with eating disorders (EDs), the aim was to provide normative data on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) for female adolescents presenting for treatment of an ED.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data source was the Helping to Outline Paediatric Eating Disorders (HOPE) Project registry (N = 1000), a prospective, ongoing registry study comprising consecutive pediatric tertiary ED referrals. Females (N = 256; 12-17 years) with DSM-5 EDs completed the CDI at intake.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results on the CDI revealed a pattern of increasing depressive scores with age and higher scores among patients with anorexic spectrum disorders. The prevalence of suicidal ideation was high and had the same pattern as CDI scores. The mean score on the CDI in the sample was higher than community samples and clinical samples of adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other clinical disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Females adolescents with EDs are at high-risk of depression and suicidal ideation. These data provide information about variation in CDI scores to guide clinicians in interpretation of scores.
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorders Program, Specialised Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Child and Adolescent Health Service, Perth, Australia; School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia; School of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Hunna J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Sarah J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Egan
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Limburg
authors.forename: Kimberley J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Hoiles
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003625:Data Collection; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012016:Reference Values; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; D059020:Suicidal Ideation
keywords: Children's depression inventory; HOPE Project; adolescent; eating disorders; norms