The Sensitivity of the Beck Depression Inventory to Changes of Symptomatology
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Despite the popularity of the Beck Depression Inventory, only Salkind (i@6g) has attempted to validate this instrument for a general practice population and Little and McPhail (i@@@) have considered this aspect of use.
Abstract
Despite the popularity of the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al ., 1961), only Salkind (1969) has attempted to validate this instrument for a general practice population. For some purposes, particularly clinical research, measurement of change in a depressive mood is more important than an absolute measure. So far only Little and McPhail (1973) have considered this aspect of use.