PO027: Providing Nuance for Depression Diagnosis Through Weighting Depression Items

  • PMD: 1
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand a different perspective on depression diagnostic thresholds and symptom severity;
  2. understand subclinical depression symptom profiles; and
  3. understand which major depressive disorder symptoms contribute more to depression.

Description

Learn how weighting depressive symptoms can contribute to the validity of diagnosing depression. Discover which symptoms contribute the most and least to a diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

Presenter(s)

Nathan B. Jones, University of Kansas
Christopher R. Niileksela, University of Kansas

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