Psychometric evaluation of a screening question for persistent depressive disorder

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Agreement between the diagnoses from the interview and the PDS

		PDD diagnosis based on the clinical interview		total
		present	not present	total
likely PDD diagnosis based on PDS result	present	49 (85%)	12 (38%)	61 (68%)
	not present	9 (16%)	20 (63%)	29 (32%)
	total	58	32	90

Note. PDS persistent depression screener. PDD Persistent depressive disorder. The table shows the agreement (number of subjects, %) between the diagnoses from the clinical interview and the PDS results about chronicity of the depressive symptomatology

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