Building a new Rasch-based self-report inventory of depression

• Published in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment Vol. 10; pp. 153 - 165
• Main Authors: Balsamo, Michela, Giampaglia, Giuseppe, Saggino, Aristide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Dove Medical Press Limited 01.01.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Dove Press; Dove Medical Press
• Subjects: Anxiety; depression; Depression, Mental; Diagnosis; Estimates; Heart attacks; Medical screening; Mental depression; Methods; Original Research; Patients; Personality tests; Quality of life; Quantitative psychology; Rasch analysis; Rasch model; scale development; Self report; self-report scales; Validity; Italy; self-report scales; Rasch analysis; depression; scale development

This paper illustrates a sequential item development process to create a new self-report instrument of depression refined with Rasch analysis from a larger pool of potential diagnostic items elicited through a consensus approach by clinical experts according to the latest edition of the Diagnostic a...