Table 1.
Summary table of studies included in the present comparison
| Reference | Location | Sample selection | Sample size (women/men) | Mean age (s.d./range) | BDI-II translation | Cronbach's alpha | BDI-II total scores | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–13 | 14–19 | 20–28 | 29–63 | |||||||
| NFBC,1966 | Finland | Cohort study | 5860 (3284/2576) | 46.6 (0.6) | Finnish | 0.92 | 4794 (82.0%) | 594 (10.0%) | 401 (4.1%) | 71 (1.2%) |
| Aasen, 200114 | Norway | Randomly recruited by telephone register | 875 (512/363) | 44.5 (18.0–86.0) | Norwegian | 0.91 | 711 (81.0%) | 93 (10.6%) | 52 (6.0%) | 21 (2.4%) |
| García-Batista et al, 201812 | Dominican Republic | Convenience sample from the general public | 954 (438/516) | 31.6 (16.0) | Spanish | 0.89 | 726 (76.1%) | 102 (10.7%) | 90 (9.4%) | 36 (3.8%) |
| Gomes-Oliveira et al, 201215 | Brazil | Community-dwelling adults, population-based household survey | 182 (102/80) | 41.0 (10.8) | Brazilian Portuguese | 0.93 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| González et al, 201516 | Mexico | Community sample | 205 (117/88) | 29.9 (16.0–70.0) | Spanish | 0.87 | 160 (78%) | 27 (13%) | 10 (5%) | 8 (4%) |
| Kojima et al, 200217 | Japan | General population recruited from annual communal health check-up visit | 766 (303/463) | 50.0 (8.6) | Japanese | 0.87 | 618 (80.7%) | 99 (12.9%) | 37 (4.8%) | 12 (1.6%) |
BDI-II, Beck Depression Inventory-II; NFBC, Northern Finland Birth Cohort.