Meta-Analysis: The Beck Depression Inventory
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Psychological Measure Paper
Nettie Gage
Cindy Delgado-Guzman
Tawny Hoinowski
Jessica Johnston
Amanda Pratt
University of Phoenix
March 15, 2010
Psychological Measure Paper
Pessimism, sense of failure, self-dissatisfaction, guilt, punishment, self-dislike, suicidal ideas, crying, irritability, insomnia, fatigue, and loss of appetite are a few of the symptoms one may feel when suffering from depression. The Beck Depression Inventory was created to assist trained professionals in a mental health care setting to assess, detect, and monitor changes in depressive symptoms. This paper outlines the Beck Depression Inventory and how professionals in the mental health profession use the test to …show more content…
The Becks Depression Inventory consists of 21 questions, long-form which are used by clinicians and 10 questions, short-form, used by primary care providers (Unknown, 2009). Meta-analysis is a method used for condensing all the genuine statistics of many various studies pertaining to the same subject. A result from a meta-analysis will show the statistics of a correlation or measure of effect size representing all the subjects of a topic (Yin & Fan, 2009). The content validity (degree in which items are represented on the test that is to be measured) of the BDI because the test was designed by clinicians, using depressive symptoms from patients. "Concurrent validity is seen when a measure occurs consistently among existing standards" (Van Wagner, …show more content…
They also share how symptoms can evolve over time. In article one it asses how each symptom progresses over a period and in the second it span 's over a five year period. However there are differences among who is conducting the survey, in one article it was a primary care physician and the other a group of researchers. The articles are different in the way the survey was conducted, one by a doctor and the other by mail. Even though they were conducted in different ways the outcome of both can not change just because of this fact. In article one it focuses on just random people, but in article two it focuses on a main group of employed or unemployed participants. These two articles may be different when it comes to whom, how, and why but they both have a main focus on depression and how it can affect one 's life in many different ways under different types of
Psychological Measure Paper
Nettie Gage
Cindy Delgado-Guzman
Tawny Hoinowski
Jessica Johnston
Amanda Pratt
University of Phoenix
March 15, 2010
Psychological Measure Paper
Pessimism, sense of failure, self-dissatisfaction, guilt, punishment, self-dislike, suicidal ideas, crying, irritability, insomnia, fatigue, and loss of appetite are a few of the symptoms one may feel when suffering from depression. The Beck Depression Inventory was created to assist trained professionals in a mental health care setting to assess, detect, and monitor changes in depressive symptoms. This paper outlines the Beck Depression Inventory and how professionals in the mental health profession use the test to …show more content…
The Becks Depression Inventory consists of 21 questions, long-form which are used by clinicians and 10 questions, short-form, used by primary care providers (Unknown, 2009). Meta-analysis is a method used for condensing all the genuine statistics of many various studies pertaining to the same subject. A result from a meta-analysis will show the statistics of a correlation or measure of effect size representing all the subjects of a topic (Yin & Fan, 2009). The content validity (degree in which items are represented on the test that is to be measured) of the BDI because the test was designed by clinicians, using depressive symptoms from patients. "Concurrent validity is seen when a measure occurs consistently among existing standards" (Van Wagner, …show more content…
They also share how symptoms can evolve over time. In article one it asses how each symptom progresses over a period and in the second it span 's over a five year period. However there are differences among who is conducting the survey, in one article it was a primary care physician and the other a group of researchers. The articles are different in the way the survey was conducted, one by a doctor and the other by mail. Even though they were conducted in different ways the outcome of both can not change just because of this fact. In article one it focuses on just random people, but in article two it focuses on a main group of employed or unemployed participants. These two articles may be different when it comes to whom, how, and why but they both have a main focus on depression and how it can affect one 's life in many different ways under different types of