Validation of Three Previously Developed Short Forms of the Beck Depression Inventory for Youth: A Replication.
Three previously developed short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory-Youth (BDI-Y) were validated against the standard 20-item BDI-Y; 168 adolescent survivors completed the standard and short-form versions of the BDI-Y. The short forms were evaluated for internal consistency and compared with the standard BDI-Y using correlation coefficients and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses. The three short forms had good internal consistency (α > 0.85), high correlations with the total BDI-Y scale (r > 0.85), and good discrimination compared with the standard BDI-Y cutoff score (area under the ROC curve >0.95). Consistent with prior findings, strong psychometric properties of an eight-item short form support its use as a screening measure for adolescent cancer survivors.
1 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, Massachusetts.
Jaime E
JE
Blackmon
1 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, Massachusetts.|2 Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts.
Cori
C
Liptak
1 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, Massachusetts.|2 Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts.
Christopher J
CJ
Recklitis
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
BDI-Y; depression; screening; survivorship; validation