Research Article

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Short Beck Depression Inventory with Iranian Psychiatric Outpatients

Table 1

Means and standard deviations of BDI-13 items.

BDI-13 itemsMean (SD)

(1) Depressed mood/sadness1.24 (1.03)
(2) Pessimism.54 (.79)
(3) Sense of failure1.15 (.98)
(4) Lack of satisfaction/dissatisfaction.96 (.97)
(5) Guilty feelings.83 (1.03)
(6) Self-hate/self-dislike.64 (.85)
(7) Self-punitive wishes/self-harm.39 (.90)
(8) Social withdrawal.83 (.91)
(9) Indecisiveness1.24 (.85)
(10) Distorted body image/self-image.69 (1.03)
(11) Work inhibition/work difficulty.92 (.99)
(12) Fatigability.98 (.84)
(13) Loss of appetite.43 (.69)
Total score11.03 (7.55)