Symptom screening scales for detecting major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of reliability, validity and diagnostic utility.

Stockings, Emily; Degenhardt, Louisa; Lee, Yong Yi; Mihalopoulos, Cathrine; Liu, Angus; Hobbs, Megan J; Patton, George

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2014.11.061

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Symptom screening scales for detecting major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of reliability, validity and diagnostic utility.

Author(s): Emily Stockings, Louisa Degenhardt, Yong Lee, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Angus Liu, Megan Hobbs, George Patton

Publication date: 2015-03-15

Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Keywords: Children and adolescents, Depression, Prevention, Psychiatric Symptom Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Validity

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Abstract

Depression symptom screening scales are often used to determine a clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) in prevention research. The aim of this review is to systematically examine the reliability, validity and diagnostic utility of commonly used screening scales in depression prevention research among children and adolescents.