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Merete Juul Sørensen1, Morten Frydenberg, Mikael Thastum
1Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Harald Selmersvej 66, 8240 Risskov, Denmark. mjs@buh.aaa.dk
Abstract:
The study examines the validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) in a child psychiatric population. Participants were 149 child psychiatric patients aged 8-13 and their parents. After diagnostic interview with the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, the children completed the CDI. A subgroup of 44 children repeated the CDI after 2 weeks. The psychometric properties of the Danish CDI were similar to those reported for the English version. CDI is moderately correlated with other measures for depressive disorder, but the instrument is not sufficiently reliable or valid to be used as a single diagnostic or screening measure in a child psychiatric population.
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