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 items	Mean (SD)
(1) Depressed mood/sadness	1.24 (1.03)
(2) Pessimism	.54 (.79)
(3) Sense of failure	1.15 (.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) Indecisiveness	1.24 (.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 score	11.03 (7.55)