Wendy Zhang|Nadia O’Brien|Jamie I Forrest|Kate Salters|Thomas L. Patterson|Julio Montaner|Robert S. Hogg|Viviane D. Lima
Validating a Shortened Depression Scale (10 Item CES-D) among HIV-Positive People in British Columbia, Canada
St. Paul's Hospital|St. Paul's Hospital|St. Paul's Hospital|St. Paul's Hospital|University of California, San Diego|St. Paul's Hospital|University of British Columbia|St. Paul's Hospital|Simon Fraser University|St. Paul's Hospital|University of British Columbia
establish reliability validity shortened 10item depression scale used among hivpositive patients enrolled drug treatment program british columbia canadathe 10item cesd center epidemiologic studies depression scale examined among 563 participants initiated antiretroviral therapy art august 1 1996 june 30 2002 internal consistency scale measured cronbachs alpha using original cesd 20 primary criteria comparisons made using kappa statistic predictive accuracy cesd 10 assessed calculating sensitivity specificity positive predictive values negative predictive values factor analysis also performed determine cesd 10 contained factors positive negative affect found original development cesdthe correlation original shortened scale high spearman correlation coefficient 097 p0001 internal consistency reliability coefficients cesd 10 satisfactory cronbach 088 cesd 10 showed comparable accuracy original cesd 20 classifying participants depressive symptoms kappa082 p0001 sensitivity cesd 10 91 specificity 92 positive predictive value 92 factor analysis demonstrates cesd 10 contains underlying factors positive negative affect found original development cesd 20the 10item cesd comparable tool measure depressive symptoms among hivpositive research participants