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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation
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A meta-analysis of the BDI's internal consistency estimates yielded a mean coefficient alpha of 0.86 for psychiatric patients and 0.81 for non-psychiatric subjects as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 11149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Depression Inventory.read more
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A critical review of dimension-specific measures of health-related quality of life in cross-cultural research.
TL;DR: The focus throughout this article is on the psychometric properties (reliability, validity and responsiveness) of these scales in different cultures, as well as the processes used to translate the instruments from English into another language.
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Sertraline for prevention of depression recurrence in diabetes mellitus: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Patrick J. Lustman,Ray E. Clouse,Billy D. Nix,Kenneth E. Freedland,Eugene H. Rubin,Janet B. McGill,Monique M. Williams,Alan J. Gelenberg,Paul Ciechanowski,Irl B. Hirsch +9 more
TL;DR: In patients with diabetes, maintenance therapy with sertraline prolongs the depression-free interval following recovery from major depression and is associated with improvements in glycosylated hemoglobin levels for at least 1 year.
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When "new" meets "old": configurations of adult attachment representations and their implications for marital functioning.
TL;DR: Two studies addressed the implications of concordance versus discrepancy of attachment representations in individuals at 2 stages in their marital relationships and have interesting implications for the extension of attachment theory into adulthood.
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Violence exposure and traumatic stress symptoms as additional predictors of health problems in high-risk children
TL;DR: This cross-sectional analysis of a Head Start preschool age cohort studied health outcomes parallel to those assessed in the 2001 National Health Interview Survey of child health as well as two stress-related somatic complaints, gastrointestinal problems and headache to establish the mother's own poor physical health and the child's level of traumatic stress as the strongest predictors of poor child health.
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Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors
TL;DR: The influence of risk factors varies substantially across DSM depression criterion symptoms, as symptoms are etiologically heterogeneous and considering individual symptoms in addition to depression diagnosis might offer important insights obfuscated by symptom sum scores.
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An inventory for measuring depression
TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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A rating scale for depression
TL;DR: The present scale has been devised for use only on patients already diagnosed as suffering from affective disorder of depressive type, used for quantifying the results of an interview, and its value depends entirely on the skill of the interviewer in eliciting the necessary information.
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Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Steven D. Hollon,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: Hollon and Shaw as discussed by the authors discuss the role of emotions in Cognitive Therapy and discuss the integration of homework into Cognitive Therapy, and discuss problems related to Termination and Relapse.
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A self-rating depression scale.
TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
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Depression: Causes and Treatment
Aaron T. Beck,Brad A. Alford +1 more
TL;DR: The definition of Depression is explained and a treatment plan for treatment and analysis of the causes and treatments are outlined.