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The Children's Depression Rating Scale for Normal and Depressed Outpatients

Karen M. Shanahan

From the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island

Joanna Zolkowski-Wynne

From the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island

Daniel L. Coury

From the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island

Edward W. Collins

From the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island

John S. O'Shea

From the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island

The Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS) was devised by Poznanski, Cook, and Carroll in 1979, to diagnose depression in 6- to 12-year-olds. The authors state a score of 30 indicates significant depression, with scores in the 20 to 30 range indicating borderline depression. Normative outpatient data for the CDRS have not, however, been established. In this study, 25 apparently well-adjusted children from a pediatric primary care unit were evaluated by the CDRS. Their scores (ranging from 16 to 18) differed significantly from the normal values noted by the founders of the scale, based on the study of inpatients. On the other hand, a study of six of our clinically depressed children indicated scores of 22 to 49. With this definition of the normal score the outpatient child who scores greater than 20 is classified as in need of close follow up to determine if he is depressed.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 26, No. 5, 245-247 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288702600506
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