- IDD provides more specific questions for the assessment of all symptoms of these criteria, in comparison, measures like CES-D are developed before these criteria occurred, making it lacks specificity to all symptoms. 
- It is found to be a stable and internally consistent measure, though not developed for all population ranges. Ex. the college population


Macalester College

It is a measure developed for the diagnosis of major depressive disorder by DSM-III criteria.


Self-report Inventory to Diagnose Depression (IDD)


Goldston, D. B., O'Hara, M. W., & Schartz, H. A. (1990). Reliability, validity, and preliminary normative data for the inventory to diagnose depression in a college population. Psychological Assessment, 2(2), 212-215. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.2.2.212

Reliability, validity, and preliminary normative data for the inventory to diagnose depression in a college population. 

Advantages of IDD

IDDL is a measure developed for the assessment of a lifetime history of MDD, a more thorough version of IDD. IDDL is divided into 22 groups of five statements, arranged in decreasing severity. To determine the presence or absence of each symptom, a priori thresholds are devised.



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