Cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory-II, across six population samples.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and BDI-II (revised version) are some of the most widely used and comparable self-report scales for assessing the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in many countries. However, although the relative mean score of each symptom in different countries may vary, the cultural differences of BDI-II symptoms for each item have not been previously studied.

Aims

To examine the overall picture of the magnitude of the symptoms in the Finnish population, and compare the relative mean score of each symptom between all published population-based samples from different countries fulfilling the search criteria.

Method

We conducted a search for population-based studies reporting BDI-II item, using Scopus, PsycINFO and PubMed, an

SUBMITTER: Seppanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8867877 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature