SynthesisChild psychiatry and human development2025
Can the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Be Used to Screen for Depression in Children and Adolescents? An Updated Systematic Review.
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- The association between using screen in the dark and depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study among Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Changes in depressive symptoms and antibody production following influenza vaccination in adolescents and adults.Vaccine · 2024Article
- A bifactor representation of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for children: gender and age invariance and implications for adolescents' social and academic adjustment.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study is an updated systematic review verifying whether the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is a valuable screening tool for children and adolescents. Electronic searches were performed on MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycArticles, using depression and CES-D as keywords. Fourteen studies that included 7,843 children and adolescents were analyzed. In the meta-analysis by CES-D type, the pooled sensitivity and specificity for the long version were 0.81 and 0.72, respectively; they were 0.80 and 0.74 for the short version, respectively. The summary receiver operating characteristic (sROC) curves were 0.83 and 0.86, respectively. Compared to the CES-D and other tools, the pooled sensitivity (0.84 vs. 0.83) and the pooled specificity (0.72 vs. 0.74) were similar, and the sROC curve was the same at 0.83. This review indicates that the CES-D is an available and valuable tool for screening depression in children and adolescents.
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