Arabic version of the Major Depression Inventory as a diagnostic tool: reliability and concurrent and discriminant validity
| Autor: | W Abu-Hindi, Mohab M. Fawzi, Mounir H. Fawzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Intraclass correlation Health Status Major Depression Inventory Severity of Illness Index behavioral disciplines and activities Young Adult Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine Psychiatry Depressive Disorder Major integumentary system business.industry Beck Depression Inventory Discriminant validity Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Middle Aged Translating medicine.disease humanities Arabs Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Major depressive disorder Anxiety Egypt Female medicine.symptom business Algorithms Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 18:304-310 |
| ISSN: | 1020-3397 |
| DOI: | 10.26719/2012.18.4.304 |
| Popis: | The Major Depression Inventory (MDI) is a brief questionnaire to assess the presence of a depressive disorder. We prepared an Arabic version of the MDI and tested its reliability and concurrent and discriminant validity as a diagnostic tool of major depressive disorder. A group of 50 Egyptian outpatients with major depressive disorder (assessed clinically and with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders) were compared with 50 healthy controls using the MDI-A, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STA.). Cronbach a was 0.91 and intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.98 (95% CI: 0.97-0.99). Scores on the MDI-A strongly correlated with BDI scores (r = 0.81) but insignificantly correlated with STAI scores. Using the MDI scoring algorithm, the sensitivity was 88.4% and specificity 78.9%. We conclude that the MDI-A has an excellent reliability and an acceptable concurrent and discriminant validity. |
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