RDSI™

Reynolds Depression Screening Inventory™

Purpose: Quickly screens for symptoms of depression

Format: Paper and pencil

Age range: 18 years to 89 years

Time: 5-10 minutes to administer

DETAILS:

The 19 items of the RDSI measure the severity of contemporary depressive symptoms. Although a formal diagnosis is not provided, empirically derived cutoff scores identify individuals who may be at risk for more serious, diagnostic forms of depression.

Quickly assesses DSM-IV™-specified symptomatology for major depressive disorder

  • The development sample consisted of 531 non-referred community adults and 324 psychiatric outpatients (including 150 outpatients diagnosed with major depression).

  • Highly reliable and internally consistent, with high alpha coefficients (.93 and .90 for the community and psychiatric outpatient samples, respectively). Test-retest reliability of the RDSI also is very high (rtt = .94).

  • The RDSI showed a high correlation with the BDI® (r = .94) and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale clinical interview (r = .93).

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