The Sensitivity of the Beck Depression Inventory to Changes of Symptomatology | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

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Despite the popularity of the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al., 1961), only Salkind (1969) has attempted to validate this instrument for a general practice population. For some purposes, particularly clinical research, measurement of change in a depressive mood is more important than an absolute measure. So far only Little and McPhail (1973) have considered this aspect of use.

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