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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 199291" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Thank you, Smallworld! That's a great explanation.</p><p>The Beck Depression Inventory is clearly based on self-assessment and cognitive skills, and does not take into account biochemical causes. (This simply means that the test is one of many tools, and it is useful, but not an end-all and be-all.)</p><p>This part is particularly useful to me:</p><p><em>The BDI suffers from the same problems as other </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_inventories" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff"><em>self-report inventories</em></span></u></a><em>, in that scores can be easily exaggerated or minimized by the person completing it. Like all questionnaires, the way the instrument is administered can have an effect on the final score. For instance, if a patient is asked to fill the form out in front of other people in a clinical environment, social expectations might elicit a different response compared to administration via a postal survey.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory#cite_note-Bowling-10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[11]</span></u></a></em></p><p><em>Another serious limitation is that in participants with concomitant physical illness, it has been suggested that the BDI's reliance on physical symptoms such as fatigue might artificially inflate scores due to symptoms of the illness, rather than of depression.</em></p><p>Drama Queen Lucy, I hope this explanation helps a bit.</p><p>I'm also wondering if you have a followup scheduled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 199291, member: 3419"] Thank you, Smallworld! That's a great explanation. The Beck Depression Inventory is clearly based on self-assessment and cognitive skills, and does not take into account biochemical causes. (This simply means that the test is one of many tools, and it is useful, but not an end-all and be-all.) This part is particularly useful to me: [I]The BDI suffers from the same problems as other [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_inventories"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][I]self-report inventories[/I][/COLOR][/U][/URL][I], in that scores can be easily exaggerated or minimized by the person completing it. Like all questionnaires, the way the instrument is administered can have an effect on the final score. For instance, if a patient is asked to fill the form out in front of other people in a clinical environment, social expectations might elicit a different response compared to administration via a postal survey.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory#cite_note-Bowling-10"][U][COLOR=#800080][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL][/I] [I]Another serious limitation is that in participants with concomitant physical illness, it has been suggested that the BDI's reliance on physical symptoms such as fatigue might artificially inflate scores due to symptoms of the illness, rather than of depression.[/I] Drama Queen Lucy, I hope this explanation helps a bit. I'm also wondering if you have a followup scheduled. [/QUOTE]
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