The Newcastle Child Depression Project Diagnosis and Classification of Depression | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2018
Israel Kolvin*
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and the Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, University of Newcastle, The Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3AE
Lynn M. Barrett
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, Fleming Nuffield Unit
S. R. Bhate
Affiliation:
Young People's Unit, Newcastle General Hospital and Fleming Nuffield Unit, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas P. Berney
Affiliation:
The Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 3AE
Trian Fundudis
Affiliation:
The Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 3AE
S. Tyrer
Affiliation:
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP
Abstract
A total of 275 successive referrals to a university child psychiatry unit out-patient department were examined using the Child Depression Inventory. Of these, 95 children were examined further by a structured clinical interview, and the relationship between different instruments for the assessment of depression in childhood was investigated. Just over one-third of the children (35%) had significant depression, and it was found that depression may be missed unless children with other psychiatric diagnoses are examined closely. Multivariate analyses of the clinical data provided factorial validation of diagnoses when employing different clinical diagnostic schemas.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991
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