Use of Nonsomatic Symptoms to Differentiate Clinically Depressed and Nondepressed Hospitalized Patients with Chronic Medical Illnesses
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 75 (3) , 1089-1090
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.75.3.1089
Abstract
The differential sensitivity of the Depression subscale scores of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Cognitive-Affective subscale scores of the revised Beck Depression Inventory were compared for 21 chronic medically ill hospitalized patients with DSM-III—R unipolar depressive disorders and 54 hospitalized medically ill patients without a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Both subscales significantly differentiated these two types of patients beyond the .001 level and yielded comparable effect sizes. The Cognitive-Affective subscale detected clinical depression as well as a specialized self-report measure.Keywords
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