Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: The psychometric properties of Beck Depression Inventory for adolescent depression in a primary-care paediatric setting in India. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Research The psychometric properties of Beck Depression Inventory for adolescent depression in a primary-care paediatric setting in India Mona Basker1 Prabhakar D Moses1 Sushila Russell2 and Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar Russell 2 Open Access Address Department of Child Health Christian Medical College Vellore 632 002 India and 2Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit Department of Psychiatry Christian Medical College Vellore 632 002 India Email Mona Basker - mona_thilak@ Prabhakar D Moses - child3@ Sushila Russell - Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar Russell - russell@ Corresponding author Published 9 August 2007 Received 15 March 2007 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2007 1 8 doi l 753-2000-1-8 Accepted 9 August 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 8 2007 Basker et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background There is increasing interest in identifying adolescents with depression in primary care settings by paediatricians in India. This article studied the diagnostic accuracy reliability and validity of Beck Depression Inventory BDI while used by paediatricians in a primary care setting in India. Methods 181 adolescents attending 3 schools were administered a back translated Tamil version of BDI by a paediatrician to evaluate its psychometric properties along with Children s Depression Rating Scale CDRS-R for convergent validity. Clinical diagnosis of depressive disorders for reference standard was based on ICD-10 interview by an independent psychiatrist who also administered the Impact of Event Scale IES for divergent
