Reliability and validity of the Basic Depression Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT: Depressive disorders have a high prevalence around the world. They present a great comorbidity with other disorders like anxiety, thereby making a differential diagnosis very difficult. The Basic Depression Questionnaire was designed to palliate this issue by isolating specific depression symptoms. Our aim is to study the reliability, factorial structure, and differential item functioning of this questionnaire.

Method

The sample consisted of 1,397 adults without psychological problems (M _age  = 29.76, SD = 11.25, 64.78% women) who completed the CBD.

Results

We observed that none of the items presented differential functioning. A monofactorial structure was established. In this model a good fit was obtained by confirmatory factor analysis and a

SUBMITTER: Guillot-Valdes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature