Fristad M A, Emery B L, Beck S J
Department of Psychiatry, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210-1250, USA.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1997 Aug;65(4):699-702. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.65.4.699.
This study investigated current uses of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), a frequently cited self-report measure for children's depressive symptomatology. Recently published studies of "childhood depression" were reviewed: Half of them used the CDI. Of these studies, 68% did not use a clinical or structured interview to determine diagnostic status. When the CDI was used alone to assess depressive symptoms, 44% of studies referred to high CDI scorers as "depressed" without providing a clear cautionary statement (i.e., either stating that the CDI cannot be used to diagnose depression or clarifying limitations regarding generalization of findings from a nonclinical to a clinical sample). These results are similar to those previously published regarding the Beck Depression Inventory, and they suggest a need for caution in the administration and interpretation of results from self-report inventories for children's depressive symptoms.
本研究调查了儿童抑郁量表（CDI）的当前使用情况，这是一种常用于评估儿童抑郁症状的自评量表。回顾了最近发表的关于“儿童抑郁症”的研究：其中一半使用了CDI。在这些研究中，68%没有使用临床或结构化访谈来确定诊断状态。当单独使用CDI评估抑郁症状时，44%的研究将CDI高分者称为“抑郁”，但未提供明确的警示声明（即要么说明CDI不能用于诊断抑郁症，要么阐明从非临床样本到临床样本结果推广的局限性）。这些结果与之前发表的关于贝克抑郁量表的结果相似，它们表明在使用儿童抑郁症状自评量表并解释其结果时需要谨慎。
