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RIC is not responsible for and does not endorse the content, products or services of any third-party website, and does not make any representations regarding its quality, content or accuracy. These translations, and links to them, are subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use of the Rehab Measures Database. Described as having advantages such as high internal consistency, high content validity, validity in differentiating between depressed and nondepressed patients, sensitivity to change, and international propagation (Richter, et al., 1998). Described as having shortcomings such as high item difficulty, lack of representative norms, controversial factorial validity, instability of scores over short time intervals, and poor discriminant validity against anxiety (Richter, et al., 1998). Not been tested for use with proxy respondents (e.g. May yield a high rate of false positives in stroke population (approximately 31%), particularly among female patients (Aben et al. Administrators should be aware of any physical limitations that might impair a patient's ability to respond to items or that may influence resultant scores (Moore et al, 1998). BDI is a self-report measure and as such may be susceptible to contextual demands.
