Free test · CES-D-10
Ten statements about how you felt over the past week: mood, energy, sleep, hope and loneliness. You get a score from 0 to 30. It is a screening tool, not a diagnosis: a high score is a reason to talk to a professional.
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The CES-D-10 is the short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Andresen and colleagues, 1994). It asks how often you had each of ten feelings during the past week. Each answer scores 0 to 3; items 5 and 8 are positive and are scored in reverse. The total runs from 0 to 30, and 10 or more is the cutoff commonly used in the literature for a likely depression screen.
The score shows how many depressive symptoms you reported for one week. It cannot tell depression from a hard stretch of life. A doctor or therapist makes a diagnosis after a conversation.
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It is a short version with 10 of the 20 statements, so it takes 2 to 3 minutes. For a bit more detail, take the full 20-item scale: Depression test, 20 questions (CES-D)
Source: CES-D-10: Andresen E. M., Malmgren J. A., Carter W. B., Patrick D. L., 1994, Screening for depression in well older adults: evaluation of a short form of the CES-D, American Journal of Preventive Medicine 10(2), 77-84, DOI 10.1016/S0749-3797(18)30622-6; Radloff L. S., 1977, Applied Psychological Measurement 1, 385-401. Text: CES form of the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center (CMU Common Cold Project, pmbc_ces-d.pdf), verbatim, without the interviewer script.
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