Primera adaptación del CDI-S a población española

The aim of this paper is to present the first adaptation of Children's Depression Inventory-Short (CDI-S, Kovacs, 1992) for the Spanish population and to analyse its psychometric properties. The CDI-S has 10 of the items of the CDI, which are the most essential symptoms of children's depression. The sample for this investigation had 1615 subjects, 635 females and 980 males, with ages ranging from 9 to 15 years old. The results show that the psychometric characteristics of the test were good and parallel to those of the CDI of 27 items, thus its abbreviation does not affect the accuracy of the tool.ResumenEn este trabajo se presenta la adaptación a población española del cuestionario Children¿s Depresión Inventory en su versión abreviada (Children¿s Depresión Inventory-Short; CDI-S, Kovacs, 1992). El CDI-S consta de 10 items que proceden del CDI más extenso (27 items) (Kovacs, 1992), que recogen los síntomas esenciales de la depresión infantil. Para la realización de esta investigación se ha contado con una muestra de 1.615 sujetos, 635 mujeres y 980 varones, con edades comprendidas entre 9 y 15 años. Los resultados indican, que las características psicométricas de la prueba abreviada (CDIS) son buenas y paralelas al CDI de 27 items, por tanto, su acortamiento no afecta a la precisión de la medida.AbstractThe aim of this paper is to present the first adaptation of Children's Depression Inventory-Short (CDI-S, Kovacs, 1992) for the Spanish population and to analyse its psychometric properties. The CDI-S has 10 of the items of the CDI, which are the most essential symptoms of children's depression. The sample for this investigation had 1615 subjects, 635 females and 980 males, with ages ranging from 9 to 15 years old. The results show that the psychometric characteristics of the test were good and parallel to those of the CDI of 27 items, thus its abbreviation does not affect the accuracy of the tool