Evaluation of the Cardiac Depression Visual Analogue Scale in a medical and non-medical sample
| Autor: | Matthew Sheehan, Mirella Di Benedetto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Predictive validity
Adult Adolescent Heart Diseases Psychometrics Visual analogue scale Population Concurrent validity Comorbidity Anxiety Young Adult Predictive Value of Tests Humans education Applied Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Aged 80 and over Psychiatric Status Rating Scales education.field_of_study DASS Primary Health Care Depression Discriminant validity Construct validity Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Chronic Disease Psychology Epidemiologic Methods Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychology, healthmedicine. 19(1) |
| ISSN: | 1465-3966 |
| Popis: | Comorbid depression and medical illness is associated with a number of adverse health outcomes such as lower medication adherence and higher rates of subsequent mortality. Reliable and valid psychological measures capable of detecting a range of depressive symptoms found in medical settings are needed. The Cardiac Depression Visual Analogue Scale (CDVAS) is a recently developed, brief six-item measure originally designed to assess the range and severity of depressive symptoms within a cardiac population. The current study aimed to further investigate the psychometric properties of the CDVAS in a general and medical sample. The sample consisted of 117 participants, whose mean age was 40.0 years (SD = 19.0, range 18-84). Participants completed the CDVAS, the Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS), the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) and a demographic and health questionnaire. The CDVAS was found to have adequate internal reliability (α = .76), strong concurrent validity with the CDS (r = .89) and the depression sub-scale of the DASS (r = .70), strong discriminant validity and strong predictive validity. The principal components analysis revealed that the CDVAS measured only one component, providing further support for the construct validity of the scale. Results of the current study indicate that the CDVAS is a short, simple, valid and reliable measure of depressive symptoms suitable for use in a general and medical sample. |
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