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The validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form as a screening and diagnostic instrument for moderate and severe depression in medical inpatients.
J Affect Disord
May 2005
Department of Internal Medicine of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), P.O. Box: 5199, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Objective: To examine the concurrent validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form (BDI-SF) to detect moderate and severe depressive episodes according to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10) criteria in inpatients with heterogeneous medical conditions and to set cut-off scores for its use in medical wards.
Methods: One hundred and fifty-five patients [53% female; mean age (+/- S.D.