Research Article

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

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of all scales and correlations with the BDI-13.

ScalesMean SDr with BDI-13

Beck Suicide Ideation Scale (BSIS)2.785.540.93
Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)10. 572.000.64
Death Obsession Scale (DOS)27.7813.680.94
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)17.00 9.890.94
General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12)18.00 7.940.76

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