What is it about?
This is a systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory - II for assessment of depressive symptoms in different medical populations.
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Why is it important?
Rigorous systematic review was applied to retrieve relevant articles, grouped in sections on the reliability and validity of the Beck Depression Inventory - II for use in medical settings. Existing evidence of scientific soundness of the BDI-II for different medical patients was synthesized in this article.
Perspectives
After reviewing 822 articles on the use of Beck Depression Inventory - II, we included 70 psychometric investigations in this article, covering different clinics of cardiology, neurology, obstetrics, brain injury, nephrology, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, oncology, and infectious disease. Therefore, the BDI-II is a reliable, valid and useful tool for the assessment of depression among medical patients.
Dr Yuan-Pang Wang
Universidade de Sao Paulo Campus da Capital
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of depression in medical patients: A systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory-II, Clinics, September 2013, Fundacao Faculdade de Medicina,
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2013(09)15.
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