Correlates of self-reported and clinically assessed depression in male heroin addicts

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Steer; Gary D. Emery; Aaron T. Beck

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198007)36:3<798::aid-jclp2270360337>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Used the Raskin Depression Scale, Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, Beck Depression Invent0 and the Profile of Mood States' Depression-dejection scale to measure Zpreaion in 152 male heroin addicts who were seeking methadone maintenance. To derive an estimate of depression that combined the former two instruments' clinical ratings and the latter two measures' self-reports, a principal component analysis was performed on the intercorrelations among the four scales. One significant component emerged, and its com onent scores then were correlated with some of the addicts' background ciaracteristics. Living with another addict, being unemplo ed, and havin previously attempted drug abuse treatment were r e l a d positively to t%e combined estimate of depreasion. The four scales' mean scores also indicated that the sample was mildly depressed.