Reynolds Depression Screening Inventory™ (RDSI™)
Purpose: Quickly screen for symptoms of depression in ages 18-89 years
Age range: 18 to 89 years
Admin: Individual or group
Admin time: 5 to 10 minutes
Scoring time: 5 minutes
The 19 items of the RDSI measure the severity of contemporary depressive symptoms. Although a formal diagnosis is not provided, empirically derived cut-off scores identify individuals who may be at risk for more serious, diagnostic forms of depression.
Quickly assesses DSM-IV™-specified symptomatology for major depressive disorder
Development sample consisted of 531 nonreferred community adults and 324 psychiatric outpatients (including 150 outpatients diagnosed with major depression).
Highly reliable and internally consistent, with high alpha coefficients (.93 and .90 for the community and psychiatric outpatient samples, respectively). Test-retest reliability of the RDSI also is very high (rtt = .94).
The RDSI showed a high correlation with the BDI® (r = .94) and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale clinical interview (r = .93).