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Responses to questions about been a nervous person, felt downhearted and blue, and felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer him/her up were reverse coded.
The five items used asked the parent how often in the past month the parent (a) had been a very nervous person, (b) felt calm or peaceful, (c) felt downhearted and blue, (d) had been a happy person, and (e) felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer him/her up.
(d) have you felt downhearted and depressed?
Moderate DIFs were shown for the MH2 item "worked less carefully" and the MH4 item "felt downhearted" according to age.
The item MH4 'have you felt downhearted and blue' correlated better (0.61) with VT than with its hypothesized scale MH.
Depression was initially screened by asking patients if they 'often felt downhearted or blue?' A negative answer has a 96% negative predictive value [ 16].
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For instance, "I feel downhearted and blue " translated by an equivalent of "I feel downhearted and sad" or "I feel downhearted and depressed".
Will I feel less downhearted tomorrow?
"I was beginning to feel very downhearted," Charles said.
Several items can be used to assess a specific domain of affect (e.g., level of sadness can be assessed by asking respondents if they feel sad, blue, or downhearted, whereas stress levels can be assessed using such terms as stressed or overwhelmed) to increase the reliability of each domain.
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