The Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (ADRS): a validation study

BMC Psychiatry

Table 7 Discriminant validity and Minimum clinically relevant difference of ADRSc, ADRSp, HDRS and BDI

	ADRSc	HDRS	ADRSp	BDI
	mean (sd)	mean (sd)	mean (sd)	mean (sd)
Levels of depression
No depression	8.9 (6.1)	6.0 (4.2)	2.3 (2.5)	8.6 (6.8)
Intermediate group	17.7 (7.6)	11.0 (5.4)	4.1 (2.7)	12.9 (8.3)
Depression	28.2 (8.9)	17.2 (6.2)	6.0 (2.7)	19.4 (8.9)
Effect size
no dep vs (inter+dep)	1.41	1.21	0.94	0.79
(no dep+inter) vs dep	1.51	1.30	1.01	0.94
Sensitivity/specificity	Cut-off 15: 0.76/0.80 Cut-off 20: 0.83/0.78		Cut off 3: 0.79/0.60 Cut-off 4: 0.80/0.60
Minimum clinically relevant difference	5.2	3.1	0.9	2.5

ADRSc: Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (clinician version)
HDRS: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
ADRSp: Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (self-rated version)
BDI: Beck Depression Inventory
No depression: the patients did not meet DSM-IV criteria for MDD and were not judged clinically depressed by the investigator.
Intermediate depression group: the patients did not met the DSM-IV criteria for MDD but were judged clinically depressed.
Depression: the patients met DSM-IV criteria for MDD and were judged clinically depressed.

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