Population prevalence of depression and mean Beck Depression Inventory score
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Population prevalence of depression and mean Beck Depression Inventory score.
BACKGROUND For some phenomena the mean of population distributions predicts the proportion of people exceeding a threshold value. AIMS To investigate whether in depression, too, the population mean predicts the number of individuals at the extreme end of the distribution. METHOD We used data from the European Outcome in Depression International Network (ODIN) study from populations in Finla...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.066191