Table 2.
Depression symptom measures
| Measure | Source | Respondent | Nitems | NDepStudies | Psychometrics |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ᾱ | rxx’ | |||||
| BDI | Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, and Erbaugh (1961) | Patient | 21 | > 1500 | .86 | .66 |
| CES-D | Radloff (1977) | Patient | 20 | > 1200 | .85 | .57 |
| HAM-D | Hamilton (1960) | Clinician | 17 | > 1200 | .89 | |
| Zung | Zung (1965) | Patient | 20 | > 800 | .83 | |
| MADRS | Montgomery and Asberg (1979) | Clinician | 10 | > 800 | .90 | |
| HADS-D | Zigmond and Snaith (1983) | Patient | 14 | ≈ 800 | .85 | .86 |
| SCL-90 | Derogatis, Lipman, and Covi (1973) | Patient | 90 | > 600 | .86 | .81 |
| CIDI | Kessler, Andrews, Mroczek, Ustun, and Wittchen (1998) | Patient | Varies | ≈ 350 | .95 | |
| SCIDIII | Spitzer, Williams, Gibbon, and First (1992) | Clinician | Varies | ≈ 350 | .64–.93 | |
| SCIDIV | American Psychiatric Association (1994) | Clinician | varies | ≈ 350 | .61–.80 | |
| MDI | Bech (1998) | Clinician | 12 | ≈ 30 | .90 | |
| IDS-SR | Rush, Gullion, Basco, Jarrett, and Trivedi (1996) | Patient | 30 | ≈ 30 | .92 | |
| IDS-CR | Rush et al. (1986) | Clinician | 30 | ≈ 25 | .90 | |
| SCL-20 | Derogatis et al. (1974a,b) | Patient | 90 | ≈ 20 | .92 | |
| QIDS-SR | Rush et al. (2003) | Patient | 18 | ≈ 20 | .86 | |
| QIDS-C | Rush et al. (2003) | Clinician | 18 | ≈ 10 | .85 | |
Measure abbreviations: BDI: Beck Depression Inventory, CES-D: Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, HAM-D: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Zung: Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, MADRS: Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale, HADS-D: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Depression, SCL-90: Symptom Check List-90 items, CIDI: Composite International Diagnostic Interview, SCIDIII: Structured Clinical Interview (DSM-III), SCIDIV: Structured Clinical Interview (DSM-IV), MDI: Major Depression Inventory, IDS-SR: Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self-Rated, IDS-CR: Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Clinician Rated, SCL-20: Symptom Check List-20 items, QIDS-SR: Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Rated, QIDS-C: Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Clinician.
The psychometrics include measures of internal consistency (ᾱ) and test-retest reliability (rxx’).