Screening for depressed mood in an adolescent psychiatric context by brief self-assessment scales – testing psychometric validity of WHO-5 and BDI-6 indices by latent trait analyses

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Research

Eva Serlachius¹  Göran Högberg¹  Eva Henje Blom²  Per Bech³  Jan Olov Larsson⁴ 

[1] Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, A2:3, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, A2:3, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden;Psychiatric Research Unit Mental Health Centre North Zealand, Dyrehavevej 48, DK 3400, Hillerød, Denmark;Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Building H2:00 Karolinska University Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, A2:3, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden;

关键词: Well-being;    Adolescent major depressive disorder;    Rasch analyses;    Mokken analyses;    Brief self-assessment scales;    BDI-6;    WHO-5;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7525-10-149

 received in 2012-04-16, accepted in 2012-12-05,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMajor depressive disorder is prevalent in the adolescent psychiatric clinical setting and often comorbid with other primary psychiatric diagnoses such as ADHD or social anxiety disorder. Systematic manual-based diagnostic procedures are recommended to identify such comorbidity but they are time-consuming and often not fully implemented in clinical practice. Screening for depressive symptoms in the child psychiatric context using brief, user-friendly and easily managed self-assessment scales may be of clinical value and utility. The aim of the study is to test the psychometric validity of two such scales, which may be used in a two-step screening procedure, the WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5) and the six-item version of Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI-6).Method66 adolescent psychiatric patients with a clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD), 60 girls and 6 boys, aged 14–18 years, mean age 16.8 years, completed the WHO-5 scale as well as the BDI-6. Statistical validity was tested by Mokken and Rasch analyses.ResultsThe correlation between WHO-5 and BDI-6 was −0.49 (p=0.0001). Mokken analyses showed a coefficient of homogeneity for the WHO-5 of 0.52 and for the BDI-6 of 0.46. Rasch analysis also accepted unidimensionality when testing males versus females (p > 0.05).ConclusionsThe WHO-5 is psychometrically valid in an adolescent psychiatric context including both genders to assess the wellness dimension and applicable as a first step in screening for MDD. The BDI-6 may be recommended as a second step in the screening procedure, since it is statistically valid and has the ability to unidimensionally capture the severity of depressed mood.

【 授权许可】

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