The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: its use in a community sample

American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 January 1983

Robert E. Roberts, Sally W. Vernon

DOI10.1176/ajp.140.1.41

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The authors conclude that the CES-D Scale may be useful as an initial or first-stage screening test for depression and corroborated earlier findings of a modest relationship between self-reported symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression.

Abstract

The authors gave the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, a self-report depression symptom scale, to 528 subjects drawn from a larger longitudinal community survey. Interviewers also assessed respondents using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), a structured clinical interview; on the basis of the SADS the subjects were then given diagnoses according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria. The results corroborated earlier findings of a modest relationship between self-reported symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression. The authors conclude that the CES-D Scale may be useful as an initial or first-stage screening test.

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