Sensitivity and specificity of the Major Depression Inventory in outpatients 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Psychiatry BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Sensitivity and specificity of the Major Depression Inventory in outpatients Pim Cuijpers*1, Jack Dekker1,2, Annemieke Noteboom2, Niels Smits1 and Jaap Peen1,2 Address: 1Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and 2Mentrum Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: Pim Cuijpers* - p.cuijpers@psy.vu.nl; Jack Dekker - jack.dekker@mentrum.nl; Annemieke Noteboom - annemieke.noteboom@mentrum.nl; Niels Smits - N.Smits@psy.vu.nl; Jaap Peen - jaap.peen@mentrum.nl * Corresponding author Published: 9 August 2007 Received: 12 February 2007 Accepted: 9 August 2007 BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7:39 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-39 This article is available from: /1471-244X/7/39 ? 2007 Cuijpers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Major Depression Inventory (MDI) is a new, brief, self-report measure for depression based on the DSM-system, which allows clinicians to assess the presence of a depressive disorder according to the DSM-IV, but also to assess the severity of the depressive symptoms. Methods: We examined the sensitivity, specificity, and psychometric qualities of the MDI in a consecutive sample of 258 psychiatric outpatients. Of these patients, 120 had a mood disorder (70 major depression, 49 dysthymia). A total of 139 subjects had a comorbid axis-I diagnosis, and 91 subjects had a comorbid personality disorder. Results: Crohnbachs alpha of the MDI was a satisfactory 0.89, and the correlation between the MDI and the depression subscale of the SCL-90 was 0.79 (p .001). Subjects with major depressive disorder (MDD) had a significantly higher MDI score than sub