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The differential sensitivity of the Depression subscale scores of the
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Cognitive-Affective subs
cale scores of the revised Beck Depression Inventory were compared for
21 chronic medically ill hospitalized patients with DSM-III - R unipo
lar depressive disorders and 54 hospitalized medically ill patients wi
thout a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Both subscales significantly di
fferentiated these two types of patients beyond the .001 level and yie
lded comparable effect sizes. The Cognitive-Affective subscale detecte
d clinical depression as well as a specialized self-report measure.