A Comparison of Assessment Methods for Depression in Mental Retardation

• Published in: Journal of autism and developmental disorders Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 305 - 313
• Main Author: Rojahn, Johannes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 01.06.1994
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Assessment; Biological and medical sciences; Classification; Comparative Analysis; Depression; Depression (Psychology); Depressive Disorder - complications; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Diagnostic Tests; Evaluation Methods; Female; Humans; Intellectual Disability - complications; Intellectual Disability - psychology; Interviews; Learning disabled people; Male; Medical sciences; Mild Mental Retardation; Moderate Mental Retardation; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Screening Tests; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Techniques and methods; Human; Mood disorder; Evaluation; Questionnaire; Self evaluation; Depression; Psychometrics; Developmental disorder; Mental retardation; Intellectual deficiency; Adult; Diagnosis; Comparative study
• ISSN: 0162-3257; 1573-3432
• DOI: 10.1007/BF02172229

The Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents, the Reiss Screen for Maladaptive Behavior, and the Self-Report Depression Questionnaire were completed for 38 adults with mild/moderate mental retardation, half of whom had relatively high and half had relatively low depression screening scores. Association among measures was generally low, yielding discordant classification results. (Author/JDD)