Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
| Name of questionnaire | Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) |
| Type of questionnaire-description,age | Severity of depressive symptoms "at that moment", specifically assessing the intensity of depression in psychiatric and normal populations, ages 13 and above |
| Number of items | 21 questions |
| Number of domains & categories | 21 symptoms-attidude categories including cognitive, affective, somatic, and vegetative symptoms of depression |
| Name of categories/domains | somatic-affective and cognitive |
| Scaling of items | 0-3 |
| Scoring available: with permission or free | Free |
| Scoring Test-retest reliability | Yes, correlation, r= 0.93 |
| Scoring Internal consistency | Yes, Cronbach's coefficient for BDI II = 0.92 |
| Validity | Yes, initial version compared to clinical determination of the intensity of depression; BDI II correlated with Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression |
| Language | English |
| Translations in other languages (if yes, then list the languages) | Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French (Canadian), German, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Arabic and Turkis |
| Developer name | AT Beck, MD |
| Developer contact information | abeck@mail.med.upenn.edu |
| Availability of questionnaire: needs permission from developer, cost or freely available | Copyrighted, available for purchase from Harcourt Assessment, Inc; $120 for 25 |
| Limitations | Price, physical illness may falsely elevate score (fatigue, etc) |
| Link to the questionnaire (if available) | Click Here to View the Questionaire |
| Other comments | Patient-rated scale. Response is reported for symptoms over prior 2 week period. High clinical sensitivity. |
| References (original publication) | BECK AT, WARD CH, MENDELSON M, MOCK J, ERBAUGH J. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1961 Jun;4:561-71. |
| Naughton MJ, Wiklund I. A critical review of dimension-specific measures of health-related quality of life in cross-cultural research. Qual Life Res 1993;2:397–432 | |
| Beck AT, Steer RA, Brown GK. Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition Manual. San Antonio (TX): The Psychological Corporation; 1996 |
