PMID- 9089058
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970630
LR  - 20190905
IS  - 0165-0327 (Print)
IS  - 0165-0327 (Linking)
VI  - 42
IP  - 1
DP  - 1997 Jan
TI  - Plumbing the depths: some problems in quantifying depression severity.
PG  - 49-58
AB  - We first report further studies of the psychometric properties of the AUSSI), a 
      brief (11-item) self-report depression measure assessing mood state severity and 
      disability in a sample of 270 subjects. Total scores (combining mood state and 
      disability) correlated well with another self-report measure of depression 
      severity, the Beck, but minimally with both Hamilton and DSM-III-R Global 
      Assessment of Function (GAF) scores. For a sub-sample where we had complete data 
      sets (including a corroborative witness [CW] form of the AUSSI), we established 
      moderate levels of agreement between self-report and CW AUSSI scores, important 
      in supporting validity of its disability sub-scale. Against expectation, neither 
      mood nor disability AUSSI scale scores differed across clinically meaningful 
      depressive sub-types, while differentiation was demonstrated for the Hamilton and 
      GAF measures. Differentiation for the Hamilton measure was clearly driven by 
      several type-specific component clinical features, but also presumably 
      contributed to by the clinician-rater format. Our study raises questions about 
      the varying reference bases and semantics used by patients, corroborative 
      witnesses and clinicians in rating depression severity, and which may generate 
      similar or contrasting severity estimates across varying depressive sub-types.
FAU - Parker, G
AU  - Parker G
AD  - Mood Disorders Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
FAU - Roussos, J
AU  - Roussos J
FAU - Hadzi-Pavlovic, D
AU  - Hadzi-Pavlovic D
FAU - Wilhelm, K
AU  - Wilhelm K
FAU - Mitchell, P
AU  - Mitchell P
FAU - Austin, M P
AU  - Austin MP
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Affect Disord
JT  - Journal of affective disorders
JID - 7906073
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Depressive Disorder/classification/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Disability Evaluation
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Patient Admission
MH  - Personality Inventory/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Social Adjustment
EDAT- 1997/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0165032796000973 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0165-0327(96)00097-3 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Affect Disord. 1997 Jan;42(1):49-58. doi: 10.1016/s0165-0327(96)00097-3.