depression: Depression screening

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Depression screening

Description

Fifty general hospital patients, admitted to the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, were randomly drawn from a larger sample described by Clarke et al. (1993). Agreement between two different screening tests and a diagnosis of depression was compared. Definition of depression included DSM-III-R Major Depression, Dysthymia, Adjustment Disorderwith Depressed Mood, and Depression NOS. Depression was determined empirically using the Cutoff (McKenzie & Clarke, 1992) program. The screening tests consisted of

Usage

depression

Format

A matrix with 50 observations and 3 variables:

depression

diagnoses as determined by the Cutoff program

BDI

Beck Depression Inventory

GHQ

General Health Questionnaire

Details

1. the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck et al., 1961) and

2. the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) (Goldberg & Williams, 1988)

References

McKenzie, D. P. et al., Comparing Correlated Kappas by Resampling: Is One Level of Agreement Significantly Different from Another? J. psychiat. Res, Vol. 30, 1996. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/S0022-3956(96)00033-7")}

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