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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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Depression as an aetiologic and prognostic factor in coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of 6362 events among 146 538 participants in 54 observational studies
TL;DR: Depression has yet to be established as an independent risk factor for CHD because of incomplete and biased availability of adjustment for conventional risk factors and severity of coronary disease.
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HFSA 2010 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline.
JoAnn Lindenfeld,Nancy M. Albert,John P. Boehmer,Sean P. Collins,Justin A. Ezekowitz,Michael M. Givertz,Stuart D. Katz,Marc Klapholz,Debra K. Moser,Joseph G. Rogers,Randall C. Starling,William G. Stevenson,Wai Hong Tang,Teerlink,Mary Norine Walsh +14 more
TL;DR: Heart failure is a syndrome characterized by high mortality, frequent hospitalization, reduced quality of life, and a complex therapeutic regimen that makes HF an ideal candidate for practice guidelines.
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Review of the Psychometric Evidence of the Perceived Stress Scale
TL;DR: Overall, the Perceived Stress Scale is an easy-to-use questionnaire with established acceptable psychometric properties, however, future studies should evaluate these Psychometric properties in greater depth, and validate the scale using diverse populations.
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Effects of Exercise Training on Older Patients With Major Depression
James A. Blumenthal,Michael A. Babyak,Kathleen A. Moore,W. Edward Craighead,Steve Herman,Parinda Khatri,Robert A. Waugh,Melissa A. Napolitano,Leslie M. Forman,Mark Appelbaum,P. Murali Doraiswamy,K. Ranga Rama Krishnan +11 more
TL;DR: After 16 weeks of treatment exercise was equally effective in reducing depression among patients with MDD, and an exercise training program may be considered an alternative to antidepressants for treatment of depression in older persons.
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Psychological and behavioral treatment of insomnia:update of the recent evidence (1998-2004).
Charles M. Morin,Richard R. Bootzin,Daniel J. Buysse,Jack D. Edinger,Colin A. Espie,Kenneth L. Lichstein +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of psychological and behavioral interventions for persistent insomnia was conducted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) in 1999 as mentioned in this paper, which provided an update of the evidence published since the original paper.
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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.