VALIDATION OF THE CHILDREN'S DEPRESSION SCALE AND THE CHILDREN'S DEPRESSION INVENTORY IN A PREPUBERTAL SAMPLE

1988/11/01 by D. Knight, David L Knight, V. R. Hensley +2 · 14 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Anxiety #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Childhood Depression #Clinical psychology #Depression (economics) #Developmental psychology #El Niño #Family and Disability Support Research #Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum #Medicine #Pediatrics #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychometrics #Scale (ratio) #Test validity #Validation test

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1988.tb00758.x

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Abstract

The validity of the Children's Depression Scale (CDS), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and their respective parent report versions was assessed in a sample of outpatient and normal control prepubertal children. Scores from the child and parent versions of both scales significantly discriminated between children independently diagnosed as depressed and those with nondepressive disorders. Both measures also distinguished depressed and dysphoric children. Contrary to the findings of earlier studies, a significant rate of agreement was found between the reports provided by the children and their parents. The results suggest that the influence of the child's age and clinical status on reporter correspondence patterns should be considered more exhaustively in future research.

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• The assessment of depression in children: The internal structure of the child depression inventory (CDI)

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