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A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology.

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Moore, HK; Hughes, CW; Mundt, JC; Rush, AJ; Macleod, L; Emslie, GJ; Jain, S; Geralts, DS; Bernstein, IH; Horrigan, JP; Trivedi, MH; Greist, JH
Published in: J Clin Psychiatry
September 2007

BACKGROUND: Adolescent depression assessments are time-intensive, often requiring separate interviews with an adolescent and a parent/ informant. In adults, a self-rated, interactive voice response (IVR) version of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-IVR) has been shown to be reliable, valid, and sensitive to change. An adolescent version of the QIDS (QIDS-A-IVR) was created using speaker-independent voice recognition technology. An informant version, QIDS-P-IVR, collects ratings from parents or other knowledgeable adults. METHOD: The study included 27 adolescents ranging from 12 to 17 years of age, 48% of whom were female. During a single office visit, adolescents completed the QIDS-A-IVR and parents completed the QIDS-P-IVR. A clinician completed the clinician-rated adult version of the QIDS separately for adolescents (QIDS-C-A) and parents (QIDS-C-P) and the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R). The study was conducted from October 2005 to April 2006. RESULTS: Cronbach alpha of the QIDS-A-IVR was .85. The QIDS-A-IVR correlated significantly with the QIDS-C-A (r = 0.95) and the CDRS-R (r = 0.76), both p < .01. Conversely, the correlations of the QIDS-A-IVR with the QIDS-P-IVR and the QIDS-C-P were small and nonsignificant. The QIDS-A-IVR required adolescents a mean of 6 minutes and 31 seconds to complete (SD = 41 seconds). The voice recognition technology correctly identified the adolescents' spoken words in 92% of the 483 spoken responses. The system recognized a response from all adolescents on all items. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the reliability and validity of the QIDS-A-IVR as an adolescent depression measure. The QIDS-A-IVR may provide clinicians and researchers with a sound, technology-based method of assessing adolescent depression. Future research is needed on the informational value of parent ratings of adolescent depression.

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J Clin Psychiatry

DOI

EISSN

1555-2101

Publication Date

September 2007

Volume

68

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1436 / 1440

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Psychiatry
  • Pilot Projects
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Electronics
  • Depression
 

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Moore, H. K., Hughes, C. W., Mundt, J. C., Rush, A. J., Macleod, L., Emslie, G. J., … Greist, J. H. (2007). A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology. J Clin Psychiatry, 68(9), 1436–1440. https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.v68n0917
Moore, Heidi K., Carroll W. Hughes, James C. Mundt, A John Rush, Laurie Macleod, Graham J. Emslie, Shailesh Jain, et al. “A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology.J Clin Psychiatry 68, no. 9 (September 2007): 1436–40. https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.v68n0917.
Moore HK, Hughes CW, Mundt JC, Rush AJ, Macleod L, Emslie GJ, et al. A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Sep;68(9):1436–40.
Moore, Heidi K., et al. “A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology.J Clin Psychiatry, vol. 68, no. 9, Sept. 2007, pp. 1436–40. Pubmed, doi:10.4088/jcp.v68n0917.
Moore HK, Hughes CW, Mundt JC, Rush AJ, Macleod L, Emslie GJ, Jain S, Geralts DS, Bernstein IH, Horrigan JP, Trivedi MH, Greist JH. A pilot study of an electronic, adolescent version of the quick inventory of depressive symptomatology. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Sep;68(9):1436–1440.

Published In

J Clin Psychiatry

DOI

EISSN

1555-2101

Publication Date

September 2007

Volume

68

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1436 / 1440

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Psychiatry
  • Pilot Projects
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Electronics
  • Depression