What does the beck depression inventory measure in myocardial infarction patients? a psychometric approach using item response theory and person-fit.

ABSTRACT: Observed associations between depression following myocardial infarction (MI) and adverse cardiac outcomes could be overestimated due to patients' tendency to over report somatic depressive symptoms. This study was aimed to investigate this issue with modern psychometrics, using item response theory (IRT) and person-fit statistics to investigate if the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) measures depression or something else among MI-patients. An IRT-model was fit to BDI-data of 1135 MI patients. Patients' adherence to this IRT-model was investigated with person-fit statistics. Subgroups of "atypical" (low person-fit) and "prototypical" (high person-fit) responders were identified and compared in terms of item-response patterns, psychiatric diagnoses, socio-demographics and somatic factors. In

SUBMITTER: Wardenaar KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6878327 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature