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Use of nonsomatic symptoms to differentiate clinically depressed and nondepressed hospitalized patients with chronic medical illnesses

D A Clark et al. Psychol Rep. 1994 Dec.

Abstract

The differential sensitivity of the Depression subscale scores of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Cognitive-Affective subscale scores of the revised Beck Depression Inventory were compared for 21 chronic medically ill hospitalized patients with DSM-III--R unipolar depressive disorders and 54 hospitalized medically ill patients without a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Both subscales significantly differentiated these two types of patients beyond the .001 level and yielded comparable effect sizes. The Cognitive-Affective subscale detected clinical depression as well as a specialized self-report measure.

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