{"id":6680,"date":"2020-11-17T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:50:43","slug":"child-depression-ces-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/child-depression-ces-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Depression | CES-DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"fullArticle\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wysiwyg-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Recommended frequency: Every 2 weeks<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"wysiwyg-underline\">Summary<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) is a 20-item self-report scale that measures the severity of depression symptoms over the past week. The scale can be used by individuals between the ages of 6 to 17. All items inquire about the frequency of symptoms, which are rated on a 4-point Likert scale. It can be used as a screening tool for depression in children and adolescents and is demonstrated to be a reliable measure to monitor depressive symptoms.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"wysiwyg-underline\">Psychometric Properties of the CES-DC<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The scale has demonstrated good to excellent internal consistency (\u03b1s = .84 &#8211; .92) and excellent concurrent validity with the Children\u2019s Depression Inventory. The scale has\u00a0demonstrated better 2-week test-retest reliability and psychometric properties with adolescents than when used by children.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7452212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7452212<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3728717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3728717<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2301363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2301363<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) Recommended frequency: Every 2 weeks Summary The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) is a 20-item self-report scale that measures the severity of depression symptoms over the past week. The scale can be used by individuals between the ages of 6 to 17. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}