Some relationships among assessments of depression

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Lutz; Stephen M. Stahl; Kenneth I. Howard; Grant R. Grissom; Raymond Joske

• Book ID: 102306792
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10072

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The Directions program provides an administratively efficient method to screen for psychological disorders in a primary‐care setting (FOCUS), confirm the need for treatment, and monitor progress (COMPASS‐PC). The instruments are psychometrically sound and grounded in an established theory of mental‐health treatment. The present study reports the relationships between FOCUS, COMPASS‐PC, and the Hamilton Depression scale for a sample of patients who have been diagnosed as major depressive disorder, dysthymia, or depressive syndrome by standardized criteria (i.e., SCID‐IV and DSM‐IV). Moreover, Focus and COMPASS‐PC are evaluated for their ability to detect depression as defined by SCID‐IV and DSM IV. Furthermore, we examine the relationship between the different instruments in their ability to measure response to treatment over time. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 1545–1553, 2002.