Publication date: Dec 27, 2024
Reliable gender-sensitive normative data is needed to facilitate mental health research and clinical utility of commonly used symptoms scales. This study establishes Danish gender-stratified norms for the 53-item and 18-item Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53, BSI-18), proposed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomatology scales from the BSI-53, and the 10-item Symptom Checklist (SCL-10). This study also examines gender-differences in symptom reporting of the ADHD and SCL-10 scales, and assesses potential bias in recent SCL-10 norms. Norms for the BSI-53, BSI-18, two ADHD scales and SCL-10 were established using archived Hopkins Symptom Checklist 90-R (SCL-90R) normative data collected in spring 2000 (n = 1079, age 18-80, 53% female). SCL-10 norms from 2000 were compared with proposed norms collected in spring 2020 (n = 2819, age 18-80, 55% female) during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark, and with first-episode depression patients from 2020 to 2023 (n = 221, age 18-65, 73% female). The scales showed high internal consistencies (McDonald’s ω > 0. 81), except for 4-5 item scales (ω > 0. 73). Women scored higher on both ADHD scales (Cohen’s d = 0. 15 and 0. 19, p ≤ 0. 019). Women scored higher on the SCL-10 in the 2000 population sample (d = 0. 22, p
Concepts | Keywords |
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90r | COVID-19 |
Denmark | gender |
Psychiatry | general population norms |
Reliable | major depressive disorder |
Spring |
Semantics
Type | Source | Name |
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disease | MESH | ADHD |
disease | IDO | symptom |
disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
disease | MESH | depression |
disease | MESH | major depressive disorder |