Measurement invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Scale-Depression within and across six diverse intervention trials.

ABSTRACT: Depression, a major contributor to the global burden of disease, is an outcome of interest in clinical trials. Researchers and clinicians note that depression often presents differently across cultures, posing challenges in the accurate measurement of depressive symptoms across populations. A commonly used self-administered screening tool to measure depressive symptoms, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Scale-Depression (CES-D), has been translated into dozens of languages and used in thousands of studies, yet gaps remain in our understanding of its factor structure and invariance across studies and over time in the context of interventions. In this secondary analysis, we sampled six recent trials from lower- and middle-income countries to (a) establish the factor structure of the CES-D

SUBMITTER: Bergenfeld I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662958 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature