Ra. Steer et al., USE OF THE COMPUTER-ADMINISTERED BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY AND HOPELESSNESS SCALE WITH PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS, Computers in human behavior, 10(2), 1994, pp. 223-229
Computer-administered versions of the revised Beck Depression Inventor
y (BDI) and Hopelessness Scale (BHS) were administered to 330 inpatien
ts diagnosed with mixed psychiatric disorders. The coefficient alpha f
or the BDI was .92, and the Kuder-Richardson-20 (KR-20) for the BHS wa
s . 91. All of the corrected-item correlations for both the BDI and BH
S were significant (p < .001), and the pre- and posttest correlations
for the BDI (r = .56) and BHS (r = .53) scores over an average of 9 da
ys were also highly significant (p < .001). A one-way multivariate ana
lysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated that both the BDI and BHS differe
ntiated 145 inpatients diagnosed with mood disorders from 185 inpatien
ts diagnosed with nonmood disorders (p < .01). Neither instrument was
significantly related to gender, ethnicity, or age. The reliabilities
and validities of the computer-administered BDI and BHS are discussed
as being comparable to those previously reported for the printed versi
ons of these instruments.