Adaptive screening for depression — Recalibration of an item bank for the assessment of depression in persons with mental and somatic diseases and evaluation in a simulated computer-adaptive test environment
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPublished 4 September 2013
Thomas Forkmann, Ulf Kroehne, Markus Wirtz, Christine Norra, Harald Baumeister, Siegfried Gauggel
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The recalibration of the ADIB succeeded and the simulation studies conducted suggest that it has good screening performance in the samples investigated and that it may reasonably add to the improvement of depression assessment.
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The recalibration of the ADIB succeeded and the simulation studies conducted suggest that it has good screening performance in the samples investigated and that it may reasonably add to the improvement of depression assessment.
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